9 Bible Verses about Pursuing Good
Most Relevant Verses
Fly from the cravings of youth, and go in pursuit of uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.
Try to be at peace with everyone, and strive for that consecration without which no one can see the Lord.
Then what do we conclude? That heathen who were not striving for uprightness attained it, that is, an uprightness which was produced by faith;
while Israel, straining after a law that should bring uprightness, did not come up to it.
Let us, therefore, keep before us whatever will contribute to peace and the development of one another.
Not that I have secured it yet, or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, because I have been captured by Jesus Christ.
I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward.
But you, man of God, must fly from these things. Strive for uprightness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.