Bible Verses about 'Avoid evil'
- Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
- 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. - 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.
- 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.
- It is to one’s honor to avoid strife,
but every fool is quick to quarrel. - Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from telling lies. - But test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil.
- 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.
- 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.
- Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. - But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
to blot out their name from the earth. - When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone.
- Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
- For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
- Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves.
- Do not be wise in your own eyes;
fear the Lord and shun evil.
This will bring health to your body
and nourishment to your bones. - The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
- Even though I walk
through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me. - When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.
- Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
- Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
- Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
- Blessed are you when people hate you,
when they exclude you and insult you
and reject your name as evil,
because of the Son of Man. - For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous
and his ears are attentive to their prayer,
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil. - If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!
- He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
- See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
- For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
- But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.
- This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’
- Keep your mouth free of perversity;
keep corrupt talk far from your lips. - For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
- The Lord will keep you from all harm—
he will watch over your life;
the Lord will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore. - It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God.
- The way of the Lord is a refuge for the blameless,
but it is the ruin of those who do evil. - You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
- And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?Next verse!With image 
