15 Bible Verses about Not Imitating Evil
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You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them. And you shall not do according to their works. But you shall surely pull them down, and surely you shall smash their images.
You shall not do like the doings of the land of Egypt in which you lived. And you shall not do like the doings of the land of Canaan, where I bring you. Neither shall you walk in their ordinances.
And you shall not walk in the ways of the nation which I cast out before you. For they committed all these things, and therefore I loathed them.
take heed to yourself that you do not become snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not ask about their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods, that I too may do likewise?
When you come to the land which Jehovah your God gives you, you shall not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not into the way of evil.
And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, but not like the kings of Israel who were before him.
As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, Sodom your sister, she nor her daughters, has not done as you have done, you and your daughters.
But I said to their sons in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
For so Jehovah spoke to me with a strong hand, and warned me against walking in the way of this people, saying,
Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do. But do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do.
And, lo, if he fathers a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and fears, and does not do like him;
Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask Him.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should not walk from now on as other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,
