Bible Verses about 'Avoid evil'
- Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
- It is to one’s honor to avoid strife,
but every fool is quick to quarrel. - To fear the Lord is to hate evil;
I hate pride and arrogance,
evil behavior and perverse speech. - Turn from evil and do good;
seek peace and pursue it. - Wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;
stop doing wrong. - But test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil.
- A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
- I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.
- Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
- Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from telling lies. - Do not turn to the right or the left;
keep your foot from evil. - And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one. - Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
- Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.
- Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil,
but those who promote peace have joy. - All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.
- But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.
- For, “Whoever would love life
and see good days
must keep their tongue from evil
and their lips from deceitful speech.
They must turn from evil and do good;
they must seek peace and pursue it.” - My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
- Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Turn from your evil ways and your evil practices.’ But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.
- Seek good, not evil,
that you may live.
Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,
just as you say he is. - When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.
- But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
to blot out their name from the earth. - For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
- Let those who love the Lord hate evil,
for he guards the lives of his faithful ones
and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone.If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 
