15 Bible Verses about Not Imitating Evil
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see thou worship not their gods neither serve them, neither do after the works of them, but overthrow them and break down the places of them.
Wherefore after the doings of the land of Egypt wherein ye dwelt, see that ye do not; neither after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I will bring you, neither walk ye in their ordinances;
And see that ye walk not in the manners of the nations which I cast out before you: For they committed all these things, and I abhorred them.
Beware that thou be not taken in a snare after them, after that they be destroyed before thee, and that thou ask not after their gods saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods, that I may do so likewise?'
When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, see that thou learn not to do after the abominations of these nations.
Come not in the path of the ungodly, and walk not in the way of the wicked.
and did that displeased the LORD: but not so evil as did the kings of Israel that were before him.
As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, Sodom thy sister with her daughters hath not done so evil as thou and thy daughters.
Moreover, I said unto their sons in the wilderness, 'Walk not in the statutes of your forefathers; keep not their ordinances, and defile not yourselves with their idols,
For the LORD chastised me, and took me by the hand, and warned me, saying unto me that I should not walk in the ways of this people. He said moreover,
All therefore, whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do: but after their works do not: for they say, and do not.
Now if this man get a son also, that seeth all his father's sins, which he hath done, and feareth, neither doth such like:
Be ye not like them therefore: for your father knoweth whereof ye have need, before ye ask of him.
This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other gentiles walk; in vanity of their mind,
