15 Bible Verses about Not Imitating Evil
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Thou shalt not worship to their gods, and thou shalt not serve them, and thou shalt not do according to their works: for destroying, thou shalt destroy them, and breaking, thou shalt break in pieces their pillars.
According to the doings of the land of Egypt where ye dwelt in it, ye shall not do: and according to the doings of the land of Canaan where I brought you there, ye shall not do: and in their laws ye shall not go.
And ye shall not walk in the laws of the nations which I sent out from before you: for they did all these things and I shall be disgusted with them.
Watch to thyself lest thou shalt be snared after them after their being destroyed from before thee; and lest thou shalt seek to their gods, saying, How shall these nations serve their gods? and so will I do also.
When thou comest to the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee,. thou shalt not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.
In the path of the unjust thou shalt not go, and thou shalt not advance in the way of the wicked.
And he will do evil in the eyes of Jehovah, but not as the kings of Israel which were before him.
I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if Sodom thy sister did, she and her daughters, as thou didst, thou and thy daughters.
And saying to their sons in the desert Ye shall not go in the laws of your fathers, and their judgments ye shall not watch, and with their blocks ye shall not be defiled.:
For thus said Jehovah to me with strength of the hand, and he will turn me away from going in the way of this people, saying,
Therefore all whatever they say to you to keep, keep and do; and according to their works do not, for they say and do not.
And behold, he begat a son, and he will see all his father's sins which he did, and he will see and will not do like them;
Therefore make not yourselves like them: for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye ask him.
Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind,