20 Bible Verses about Avoiding Evil

Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,

and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,

and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,

and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain.

from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from the idolatry;

and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

sure, nevertheless, hath the foundation of God stood, having this seal, 'The Lord hath known those who are His,' and 'Let him depart from unrighteousness -- every one who is naming the name of Christ.'

My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

As to doings of man, Through a word of Thy lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer;

but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;

to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!'

'And concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, having given judgment, that they observe no such thing, except to keep themselves both from idol-sacrifices, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom.'

and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety,

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, 'No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,