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• Exodus 32:12  (Exodus 32)

  Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people.

• Numbers 22:34  (Numbers 22)

  Then Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood in the road against me. Now therefore, if it is evil in your sight, I will turn back.”

• Deuteronomy 31:29  (Deuteronomy 31)

  For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And in the days to come evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger through the work of your hands.”

• 1 Samuel 12:20  (1 Samuel 12)

  And Samuel said to the people, “Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart.

• 1 Kings 13:33  (1 Kings 13)

  After this thing Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people. Any who would, he ordained to be priests of the high places.

• 2 Kings 15:24  (2 Kings 15)

  And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.

• 2 Kings 17:13  (2 Kings 17)

  Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

• Job 28:28  (Job 28)

  And he said to man,

  ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom,

  and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

• Psalm 34:14  (Psalm 34)

  Turn away from evil and do good;

  seek peace and pursue it.

• Psalm 37:27  (Psalm 37)

  Turn away from evil and do good;

  so shall you dwell forever.

• Proverbs 3:7  (Proverbs 3)

  Be not wise in your own eyes;

  fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.

• Proverbs 4:27  (Proverbs 4)

  Do not swerve to the right or to the left;

  turn your foot away from evil.

• Proverbs 13:19  (Proverbs 13)

  A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul,

  but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.

• Jeremiah 18:20  (Jeremiah 18)

  Should good be repaid with evil?

  Yet they have dug a pit for my life.

  Remember how I stood before you

  to speak good for them,

  to turn away your wrath from them.

• Jeremiah 25:5  (Jeremiah 25)

  saying, ‘Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and evil deeds, and dwell upon the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever.

• Jeremiah 26:3  (Jeremiah 26)

  It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the disaster that I intend to do to them because of their evil deeds.

• Jeremiah 35:15  (Jeremiah 35)

  I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, ‘Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to you and your fathers.’ But you did not incline your ear or listen to me.

• Jeremiah 36:3  (Jeremiah 36)

  It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the disaster that I intend to do to them, so that every one may turn from his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

• Jeremiah 36:7  (Jeremiah 36)

  It may be that their plea for mercy will come before the Lord, and that every one will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people.”

• Jeremiah 44:5  (Jeremiah 44)

  But they did not listen or incline their ear, to turn from their evil and make no offerings to other gods.

• Ezekiel 13:22  (Ezekiel 13)

  Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not grieved him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his evil way to save his life,

• Ezekiel 33:11  (Ezekiel 33)

  Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?

• Jonah 3:8  (Jonah 3)

  but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.

• Matthew 5:39  (Matthew 5)

  But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

• 1 Peter 3:11  (1 Peter 3)

  let him turn away from evil and do good;

  let him seek peace and pursue it.