17 Bible Verses about Avoiding Evil

Now I exhort you, brethren, to mark those who cause divisions and offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned:

O Timothy, keep that with which thou art entrusted, avoiding profane empty babblings, and the oppositions of science falsely so called:

But avoid prophane empty harangues; for they will proceed to more impiety,

but foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they produce quarrels; for the servant of the Lord ought not to wrangle,

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes and contentions about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain:

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

Flee youthful passions: and follow righteousness, fidelity, love, and peace, with all those that call upon the Lord out of a pure heart:

Flee from whoredom. Every other sin, that a man committeth, is without the body; but he, that committeth whoredom, sinneth against his own body.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, flee from idolatry.

But do thou, O man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, piety, fidelity, love, patience, meekness.

However, the foundation of God standeth firm, having this inscription, The Lord knoweth them that are his; and, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from fornication: from which ye will do well to keep yourselves. Farewel.

But as to the believing Gentiles, we have written and determined, that they need observe no such thing; only to keep themselves from what is offered to idols, and from blood, and from any thing strangled, and from fornication.

But profane and groundless fables reject, and exercise thyself unto godliness.

Let your conversation be free from covetousness, and be contented with what ye have: for He hath said, I will not leave thee; I will never, never forsake thee.

Dearly beloved, I exhort you as strangers and sojourners here, to abstain from carnal lusts, which war against the soul: