12 Bible Verses about Pursuing Good
Most Relevant Verses
Flee from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
The one who pursues righteousness and faithful love
will find 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,
and to the quarry from which you were dug.
and he must turn away from evil
and do what is good.
He must seek peace and pursue it,
Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness—without it no one will see the Lord.
What should we say then? Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained righteousness—namely the righteousness that comes from faith.
But Israel, pursuing the law for righteousness, has not achieved the righteousness of the law.
So then, we must pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another.
Not that I have already reached the goal or am already fully mature, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.
But you, man of God, run from these things,
and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith,
love, endurance, and gentleness.
