15 Bible Verses about Not Imitating Evil

" 'You will not bow to their gods, and you will not serve them, and you will not act according to their actions, because you will utterly demolish them, and you will utterly break their stone pillars.

You must not {carry out} the practices of the land of Egypt, in which you lived, and you must not {carry out} the practices of the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you; and you must not follow their statutes.

And you shall not follow the statutes of the nation that I am driving out {from before you}, because they did all these things, and I detested them.

{take care} so that you are not ensnared {into imitating them} after their being destroyed from {before you}, and so that you not enquire concerning their gods, {saying}, 'How did these nations serve their gods, and [thus] {I myself} want to do also.'

"When you come to the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you, you must not learn to do like the detestable practices of those nations.

You shall not worship Yahweh your God like this.

In the path of the wicked do not go; do not walk in the way of those who do evil.

He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, only not as the kings of Israel who were before him.

{As surely as I live},' {declares} the Lord Yahweh, 'surely your sister Sodom and her daughters did not [do] as you and your daughters did.

"And I said to their children in the desert, 'You must not go in the statutes of your parents; you must not keep their regulations, and you must not make yourself unclean with their idols.

For Yahweh said this to me {while his hand weighed heavily on me}, and he {warned me not to walk} in the way of this people, saying,

Therefore do and observe everything that they tell you, but do not do as {they do}, for they tell [others to do something] and do not do [it themselves].

"And look! He has a son, and he sees all of the sin of his father that he did, and he sees [it], but he does not [do] it.

Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows {what you need} before you ask him.

This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, [that] you no longer walk as the Gentiles walk: in the futility of their mind,