Bible Verses about 'Avoid evil'

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• Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
  Romans 12:21evilgoodnessovercoming
• I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; 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 deeds from before my eyes;
  cease to do evil.
  Isaiah 1:16sinpurificationevil
• Turn away from evil and do good;
  seek peace and pursue it.
  Psalm 34:14evilgoodnesspeace
• The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
  Luke 6:45sinspeakingblessing
• But test everything; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.
  1 Thessalonians 5:21-22understandingevilprophecy
• See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.
  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 reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain 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
• And lead us not into temptation,
  but deliver us from evil.
  Matthew 6:13temptationdesiresevil
• Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
  Romans 12:9loveevilgoodness
• It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife,
  but every fool will be quarreling.
  Proverbs 20:3speakingpeaceanger
• Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.
  Ecclesiastes 8:11sinheartpunishment
• Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil,
  but those who plan peace have joy.
  Proverbs 12:20eviljoypeace
• Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.
  Matthew 5:37reliabilityevilspeaking
• But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.
  2 Thessalonians 3:3reliabilitysafetystrength
• For “Whoever desires to love life
  and see good days,
  let him keep his tongue from evil
  and his lips from speaking deceit;
  let him turn away from evil and do good;
  let him seek peace and pursue it.”
  1 Peter 3:10-11lovepeacelife
• I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.
  John 17:15safetymediatorevil
• Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares 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,
  as you have said.
  Amos 5:14holinessrewardseeking
• The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
  to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
  Psalm 34:16evilsin
• O you who love the Lord, hate evil!
  He preserves the lives of his saints;
  he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
  Psalm 97:10reliabilityredeemerevil
• But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
  1 Corinthians 7:2desiresmarriagerelationships