15 Bible Verses about Not Imitating Evil
Most Relevant Verses
Thou shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works, but thou shall utterly overthrow them, and break their pillars in pieces.
Ye shall not do after the doings of the land of Egypt, in which ye dwelt, and ye shall not do after the doings of the land of Canaan, where I bring you, nor shall ye walk in their statutes.
And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I cast out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before thee, and that thou not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? Even so I will do likewise.
When thou have come into the land, which LORD thy God gives thee, thou shall not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and walk not in the way of evil men.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of LORD, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.
As I live, says lord LORD, Sodom thy sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as thou have done, thou and thy daughters.
And I said to their sons in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers. Neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
For LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
All things therefore, however many they may tell you to observe, observe and do, but do not ye according to their works, for they say, and do not.
Now, lo, if he begets a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not do such like,
Be not therefore like them, for your Father knows what things ye have need of before ye ask him.
This I say therefore, and solemnly declare in Lord, for you to walk no longer as also the other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
