The phrase "avoid evil" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing moral choices, ethical behavior, or personal conduct.
Example: "In our quest for a better society, we must strive to avoid evil in all its forms."
Alternatives: "steer clear of wrongdoing" or "shun malevolence".
Google's motto is to avoid evil.
On one side stands the Night Watch, who ensure the Dark avoid evil while night covers the city.
But those passages regularly link the duty to avoid evil to a positive duty to do good: "The moral imperative to respond to the needs of our neighbors — basic needs such as food, shelter, health care, education and meaningful work — is universally binding on our consciences".
Examples are "Do good and avoid evil" and "Obey God".
This has often been truncated to (i) "Good is to be done, and evil avoided" or even, more drastically, (iia) "Do good and avoid evil" or yet more drastically (iib) "Avoid evil and seek the good".
The specific dictate of synderesis which refers to the eternal law is that one must obey God; the primary imperative with respect to the natural law is that one should avoid evil and seek the good.
In Viva Piñata, gamers must nurture a garden and fill it with breeding, boggle-eyed Mexican party donkeys, while avoiding evil Professor Pester and his marauding Ruffians.
Avoiding evil suggested a pretty low bar, but the vow itself — along with the founders' boast that "our business practices are beyond reproach" — was an invitation to find contrary examples.
Ḥasan said that the world is treacherous, "for it is like to a snake, smooth to the touch, but its venom is deadly". The practice of religious self-examination (muḥāsabah), which led to the activity of avoiding evil and doing good, coupled with a wariness of the world, marked Ḥasan's piety and influenced later ascetic and mystical attitudes in Islam.
To be wise, however, is not only to have true opinions about things, but also to translate this knowledge into action by desiring honorable things and avoiding evil (I, 2).
Today the Timothy Plan (so named for a verse in the book of Timothy that deals with avoiding evil and providing for family) is a family of eight funds with 15,000 investors.
