15 Bible Verses about Not Imitating Evil
Most Relevant Verses
You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.
You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes.
You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise."
When you have come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.
As I live,' says the Lord GOD, 'Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
"'"I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
All which they will say unto you, observe and do; but their works do not do, because they say, and do not do.
"Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;
Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
