Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
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Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
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Job 1:1:
In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.
(NIV)
THERE WAS a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who [reverently] feared God and abstained from and shunned evil [because it was wrong].
(AMP)
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
(KJV)
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Acts 20:27:
For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God.
(NIV)
For I never shrank or kept back or fell short from declaring to you the whole purpose and plan and counsel of God.
(AMP)
For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
(KJV)
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