'Avoid' in the Bible
If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail around your roof to avoid being culpable in the event someone should fall from it.
Then I said, "The thing that you are doing is wrong! Should you not conduct yourselves in the fear of our God in order to avoid the reproach of the Gentiles who are our enemies?
Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.
All the relatives of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him -- he pursues them with words, but they do not respond.
Honesty has disappeared; the one who tries to avoid evil is robbed. The Lord watches and is displeased, for there is no justice.
For take note, I am already beginning to bring disaster on the city that I call my own. So how can you possibly avoid being punished? You will not go unpunished! For I am proclaiming war against all who live on the earth. I, the Lord who rules over all, affirm it!'
The best of them is like a thorn; the most godly among them are more dangerous than a row of thorn bushes. The day you try to avoid by posting watchmen -- your appointed time of punishment -- is on the way, and then you will experience confusion.
But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter, having decided that they should avoid meat that has been sacrificed to idols and blood and what has been strangled and sexual immorality."
Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!
Those who want to make a good showing in external matters are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do so only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.
O Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane chatter and absurdities of so-called "knowledge."
But avoid profane chatter, because those occupied with it will stray further and further into ungodliness,
They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these.
But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the law, because they are useless and empty.
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- Annul (14 instances)
- Avert (8 instances)
- Avoid (51 instances)
- Elude (2 instances)
- Invalidate (3 instances)
- Nullify (11 instances)
- Void (68 instances)
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