15 Bible Verses about Not Imitating Evil
Most Relevant Verses
Do not worship or serve their gods or follow their practices. You must destroy their gods and crush their sacred stones.
Do not follow the customs of Egypt where you used to live or those of Canaan where I am bringing you.
The nations I am chasing out did these disgusting things. I hated them for it! So do not follow their example.
Be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them, for they will be destroyed. Do not inquire after their gods, saying: How do these nations serve their gods that I also may do likewise?
When you come into the land that Jehovah your God gives you, do not follow the disgusting practices of the nations that are there.
He did evil in the eyes of Jehovah. Though he was not like the kings of Israel before him.
As I am alive,' declares the Lord Jehovah, 'Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
I said to their children in the desert: Do not live by the laws of your ancestors. Do not obey their rules or dishonor yourselves with their disgusting idols.
This is what Jehovah said with his powerful hand on me. He warned me not to follow the ways of these people:
Obey everything they teach you, but do not follow their example. They say one thing and do something else.
Now suppose this son has a son. The son sees all the sins that his father does. He is afraid, so he does not do such things.
This I say therefore, and testify (affirm) in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the nations also walk, in the vanity (futility) (depravity) of their mind (thinking).
