9 Bible Verses about Pursuing Good
Most Relevant Verses
You must keep on fleeing from the evil impulses of youth, but ever strive for uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in association with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.
He must turn, too, away from evil and do right; He must seek peace and follow it,
Continue to live in peace with everybody and strive for that consecration without which no one can see the Lord.
What are we then to conclude? That heathen peoples who were not in search for right standing with God have obtained it, and that a right standing conditioned on faith;
while Israel, though ever in pursuit of a law that would bring right standing, did not attain to it.
So let us keep on pursuing the things that make for peace and our mutual upbuilding.
It is not a fact that I have already secured it or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, the ideal for which I was captured by Christ Jesus.
I am pressing onward toward the goal, to win the prize to which God through Jesus Christ is calling us upward.
But you, as a man of God, must be fleeing always from these things; you must constantly strive for uprightness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.
