15 Bible Verses about Not Imitating Evil
Most Relevant Verses
"You must not bow down to their gods; you must not serve them or do according to their practices. Instead you must completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones to pieces.
You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; you must not walk in their statutes.
You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.
After they have been destroyed from your presence, be careful not to be ensnared like they are; do not pursue their gods and say, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do the same."
When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.
He did evil in the sight of the Lord, but not to the same degree as the Israelite kings who preceded him.
As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, your sister Sodom and her daughters never behaved as wickedly as you and your daughters have behaved.
"'But I said to their children in the wilderness, "Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Indeed this is what the Lord told me. He took hold of me firmly and warned me not to act like these people:
Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach.
"But suppose he in turn has a son who notices all the sins his father commits, considers them, and does not follow his father's example.
So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
