• Psalm 34:13-16
    Keep your tongue from evil,
    And your lips from speaking deceit.
    Depart from evil and do good;
    Seek peace and pursue it. The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous,
    And His ears are open to their cry.
    The face of the LORD is against those who do evil,
    To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
     
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:22
    Abstain from every form of evil.
     
  • Exodus 23:2
    You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice.
     
  • Deuteronomy 13:5
    But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put away the evil from your midst.
     
  • Deuteronomy 17:7
    The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from among you.
     
  • Deuteronomy 17:12
    Now the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall put away the evil from Israel.
     
  • Deuteronomy 19:19
    then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you.
     
  • Deuteronomy 30:15
    "See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil,
     
  • Joshua 6:18
    And you, by all means abstain from the accursed things, lest you become accursed when you take of the accursed things, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
     
  • Job 1:1
    There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.
     
  • Job 1:8
    Then the LORD said to Satan, 'Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?'
     
  • Job 2:3
    Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil? And still he holds fast to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to destroy him without cause.”
     
  • Job 28:28
    And to man He said,
    " Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom,
    And to depart from evil is understanding.""
     
  • Psalm 15:3
    He who does not backbite with his tongue,
    Nor does evil to his neighbor,
    Nor does he take up a reproach against his friend;

     
  • Psalm 37:27
    Depart from evil, and do good;
    And dwell forevermore.

     
  • Psalm 97:10
    You who love the LORD, hate evil!
    He preserves the souls of His saints;
    He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

     
  • Psalm 119:101
    I have restrained my feet from every evil way,
    That I may keep Your word.

     
  • Proverbs 3:7
    Do not be wise in your own eyes;
    Fear the LORD and depart from evil.

     
  • Proverbs 3:29
    Do not devise evil against your neighbor,
    For he dwells by you for safety’s sake.

     
  • Proverbs 4:14
    Do not enter the path of the wicked,
    And do not walk in the way of evil.

     
  • Proverbs 4:27
    Do not turn to the right or the left;
    Remove your foot from evil.
     
  • Proverbs 6:24
    To keep you from the evil woman,
    From the flattering tongue of a seductress.

     
  • Proverbs 8:13
    The fear of the LORD is to hate evil;
    Pride and arrogance and the evil way
    And the perverse mouth I hate.

     
  • Proverbs 11:19
    As righteousness leads to life,
    So he who pursues evil pursues it to his own death.

     
  • Proverbs 13:19
    A desire accomplished is sweet to the soul,
    But it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil.

     
  • Proverbs 14:16
    A wise man fears and departs from evil,
    But a fool rages and is self-confident.

     
  • Proverbs 16:6
    In mercy and truth
    Atonement is provided for iniquity;
    And by the fear of the LORD one departs from evil.

     
  • Proverbs 16:17
    The highway of the upright is to depart from evil;
    He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

     
  • Proverbs 24:1
    Do not be envious of evil men,
    Nor desire to be with them;

     
  • Proverbs 28:5
    Evil men do not understand justice,
    But those who seek the LORD understand all.

     
  • Ecclesiastes 8:3
    Do not be hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand for an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him.”

     
  • Ecclesiastes 8:11-12
    Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.
     
  • Ecclesiastes 11:10
    Therefore remove sorrow from your heart,
    And put away evil from your flesh,
    For childhood and youth are vanity.
     
  • Ecclesiastes 12:14
    For God will bring every work into judgment,
    Including every secret thing,
    Whether good or evil.
     
  • Isaiah 1:16
    "Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;
    Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.
    Cease to do evil,

     
  • Isaiah 5:20
    Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
    Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
    Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

     
  • Isaiah 7:15-16
    Curds and honey He shall eat, that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good. For before the Child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you dread will be forsaken by both her kings.
     
  • Isaiah 56:2
    Blessed is the man who does this,
    And the son of man who lays hold on it;
    Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
    And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

     
  • Isaiah 59:15
    So truth fails,
    And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Then the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him
    That there was no justice.

     
  • Jeremiah 13:23
    Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots?
    Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil.

     
  • Jeremiah 18:8
    if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it.
     
  • Jeremiah 18:11
    “Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. Return now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.”’”
     
  • Jeremiah 23:22
    But if they had stood in My counsel,
    And had caused My people to hear My words,
    Then they would have turned them from their evil way
    And from the evil of their doings.

     
  • Jeremiah 25:5
    They said, "Repent now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.
     
  • Jeremiah 26:3
    Perhaps everyone will listen and turn from his evil way, that I may relent concerning the calamity which I purpose to bring on them because of the evil of their doings.’
     
  • Jeremiah 35:15
    I have also sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, ‘Turn now everyone from his evil way, amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them; then you will dwell in the land which I have given you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear, nor obeyed Me.
     
  • Jeremiah 36:3
    It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the adversities which I purpose to bring upon them, that everyone may turn from his evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
     
  • Jeremiah 36:7
    It may be that they will present their supplication before the LORD, and everyone will turn from his evil way. For great is the anger and the fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.”
     
  • Ezekiel 6:9
    Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations.
     
  • Ezekiel 33:11
    Say to them: "As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?"
     
  • Ezekiel 36:31
    Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight, for your iniquities and your abominations.
     
  • Amos 5:14-15
    Seek good and not evil,
    That you may live;
    So the LORD God of hosts will be with you,
    As you have spoken.
    Hate evil, love good;
    Establish justice in the gate.
    It may be that the LORD God of hosts
    Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
     
  • Jonah 3:8
    But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
     
  • Jonah 3:10
    Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.
     
  • Zechariah 1:4
    “Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets preached, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.”’ But they did not hear nor heed Me,” says the LORD.

     
  • Luke 6:45
    A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
     
  • Romans 12:9
    Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.
     
  • Romans 12:17
    Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men.
     
  • Romans 12:21
    Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
     
  • Romans 16:19
    For your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf; but I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple concerning evil.
     
  • 2 Corinthians 13:7
    Now I pray to God that you do no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that you should do what is honorable, though we may seem disqualified.
     
  • Ephesians 4:31
    Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.
     
  • 1 Thessalonians 4:3
    For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality;
     
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:15
    See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all.
     
  • James 1:13
    Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone.
     
  • 1 Peter 2:1
    Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking,
     
  • 1 Peter 2:11
    Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
     
  • 1 Peter 3:9-12
    not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing. For
    "He who would love life
    And see good days,
    Let him refrain 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.
    For the eyes of the LORD are on the righteous,
    And His ears are open to their prayers;
    But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil."
     
  • 1 Peter 3:17
    For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
     
  • 3 John 1:11
    Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God.
     
  • Revelation 2:2
    "I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;