20 Bible Verses About Avoiding Evil

Here are 20 Bible verses about avoiding evil from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible (King James Version), sorted from most to least relevant.

2 Timothy 2:22 KJV

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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2 Timothy 2:23 KJV

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

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1 Corinthians 10:14 KJV

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

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1 Timothy 4:7 KJV

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

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1 Thessalonians 5:22 KJV

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

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2 Timothy 2:16 KJV

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

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1 Timothy 6:20 KJV

But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

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Proverbs 1:15 KJV

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

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Acts 15:29 KJV

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

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Acts 15:20 KJV

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

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1 Corinthians 6:18 KJV

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

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Romans 16:17 KJV

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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Hebrews 13:5 KJV

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

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Titus 3:9 KJV

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

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1 Peter 2:11 KJV

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

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Acts 21:25 KJV

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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Psalms 17:4 KJV

As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

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Proverbs 4:15 KJV

Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

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1 Timothy 6:11 KJV

Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

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2 Timothy 2:19 KJV

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

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