14 Bible Verses about Turning From Evil

Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

And let him be turned from evil and do good; searching for peace and going after it with all his heart.

Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.

The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.

Saying, Come back now, everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and keep your place in the land which the Lord has given to you and to your fathers, from times long past even for ever:

Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:

Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.

It may be that they will give ear, and that every man will be turned from his evil way, so that my purpose of sending evil on them because of the evil of their doings may be changed.

And as a saviour he will come to Zion, turning away sin from Jacob, says the Lord.

To get one's desire is sweet to the soul, but to give up evil is disgusting to the foolish.

For this cause I will be your judge, O children of Israel, judging every man by his ways, says the Lord. Come back and be turned from all your sins; so that they may not be the cause of your falling into evil.

Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.

Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.