Bible Verses about 'Avoid evil'

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• Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
  Romans 12:21evilgoodnessovercoming
• I urge you, brothers and sisters, to keep an eye on those who cause dissensions and offenses, in opposition to the teaching that you have learned; avoid them.
  Romans 16:17holinesscommunityevil
• The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil.
  Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
  and perverted speech I hate.
  Proverbs 8:13aweprideevil
• Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
  remove the evil of your doings
  from before my eyes;
  cease to do evil.
  Isaiah 1:16sinpurificationevil
• Depart from evil, and do good;
  seek peace, and pursue it.
  Psalm 34:14evilgoodnesspeace
• But test everything; hold fast to what is good; abstain from every form of evil.
  1 Thessalonians 5:21-22understandingevilprophecy
• The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil; for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.
  Luke 6:45sinspeakingblessing
• See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all.
  1 Thessalonians 5:15blamelessrighteousnessevil
• Keep your tongue from evil,
  and your lips from speaking deceit.
  Psalm 34:13speakingeviltruth
• Do not repay evil for evil or abuse for abuse; but, on the contrary, repay with a blessing. It is for this that you were called—that you might inherit a blessing.
  1 Peter 3:9speakingblessingcalling
• Do not swerve to the right or to the left;
  turn your foot away from evil.
  Proverbs 4:27evilrighteousnessfollowing
• It is honorable to refrain from strife,
  but every fool is quick to quarrel.
  Proverbs 20:3speakingpeaceanger
• Because sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the human heart is fully set to do evil.
  Ecclesiastes 8:11sinheartpunishment
• Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good.
  Romans 12:9loveevilgoodness
• And do not bring us to the time of trial,
  but rescue us from the evil one.
  Matthew 6:13temptationdesiresevil
• Deceit is in the mind of those who plan evil,
  but those who counsel peace have joy.
  Proverbs 12:20eviljoypeace
• But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
  2 Thessalonians 3:3reliabilitysafetystrength
• Let your word be ‘Yes, Yes’ or ‘No, No’; anything more than this comes from the evil one.
  Matthew 5:37reliabilityevilspeaking
• For
  “Those who desire life
  and desire to see good days,
  let them keep their tongues from evil
  and their lips from speaking deceit;
  let them turn away from evil and do good;
  let them seek peace and pursue it.”
  1 Peter 3:10-11lovepeacelife
• I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one.
  John 17:15safetymediatorevil
• Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.” But they did not hear or heed me, says the Lord.
  Zechariah 1:4conversionevillistening
• Seek good and not evil,
  that you may live;
  and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you,
  just as you have said.
  Amos 5:14holinessrewardseeking
• The Lord loves those who hate evil;
  he guards the lives of his faithful;
  he rescues them from the hand of the wicked.
  Psalm 97:10reliabilityredeemerevil
• But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
  1 Corinthians 7:2desiresmarriagerelationships
• Put away from you crooked speech,
  and put devious talk far from you.
  Proverbs 4:24speakingtruthlying