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. - 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.
- But test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil.
- Turn from evil and do good;
seek peace and pursue it. - 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.
- Wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;
stop doing wrong. - 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. - Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
- And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us 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.
- 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.
- But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
to blot out their name from the earth. - Seek good, not evil,
that you may live.
Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,
just as you say he is. - But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.
- 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 the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.
For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.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! 
