15 Bible Verses about Not Imitating Evil
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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 are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil men.
He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.
As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, 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, Don't walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don't do their works; for they say, and don't 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 don't 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,
