12 Bible Verses about Pursuing Good

Avoid evil and do good! Seek peace and pursue it!

Flee from youthful passions. Instead, pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace together with those who call on the Lord with a pure heart.

Whoever pursues righteousness and gracious love finds life, righteousness, and honor.

"Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD! Look to the rock from which you were cut, to the quarry from which you were hewn.

He must turn away from evil and do good. He must seek peace and pursue it.

Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

What can we say, then? Gentiles, who were not pursuing righteousness, have attained righteousness, a righteousness that comes through faith.

But Israel, who pursued righteousness based on the Law, did not achieve the Law.

Therefore, let's keep on pursuing those things that bring peace and that lead to building up one another.

It's not that I have already reached this goal or have already become perfect. But I keep pursuing it, hoping somehow to embrace it just as I have been embraced by the Messiah Jesus.

I keep pursuing the goal to win the prize of God's heavenly call in the Messiah Jesus.

But you, man of God, must flee from all these things. Instead, you must pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.