Avoid evil and do good! Seek peace and pursue it!Majority Standard BibleTurn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.NET BibleTurn away from evil and do what is right! Strive for peace and promote it! New Heart English BibleTurn away from evil, and do good. Seek peace,...
Avoid evil, do good, and live forever.Good News TranslationTurn away from evil and do good, and your descendants will always live in the land; International Standard VersionDepart from evil, and do good, and you will live in the land forever.Majority Standard BibleTurn away from evil and ...
Just as going to the gym and eating good quality protein provide energy and strength, God’s truth sources our power. But it’s not something we feel come into us or reside inside of us. In the spiritual realm, the Holy Spirit enables us to live out of a different perspective, God’s...
She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life. I Corinthians 13:4-8Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does no...
Murder is wrong. This means the premeditated killing of others is wrong. Killing in a fit of emotion is also wrong and is prohibited here. But as we will see later, accidently taking the life of another is wrong. We must do all that we can to avoid it and stay as far away as pos...
1Do not fret because of those who are evil or be enviousof those who do wrong; 2for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away. 3Trust in theLordand do good; dwell in the landand enjoy safe pasture. ...
And when we refuse, like any good parent, our Heavenly Father will often turn up the heat. The Discipline of the Lord Hebrews 12.5-11says: 5And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: “My son, do not despise thechastening of theLord, ...
Proverbs 24:1 Evildoers make others envious; every moral teacher must show that, in one way or another, evil does not pay, that it is a pathway to death. Faced with the lure of desires that are easily available but dishonest, they must show the human and spiritual value of good behavio...
23But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.24And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto allmen, apt to teach, patient,25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowl...
why Obama did the same when commuting the sentences of Chelsea Manning and the terrorist Oscar López Rivera. And, most notoriously, that’s why Bill Clinton waited until his last full day in office to pardon the fugitive Marc Rich, who had fled to Switzerland to avoid prosecution and whose...