Fleeing Sin and Pursuing Righteousness

2 Timothy 2:22-26

But flee thou youthful desires, and pursue justice, faith, charity and peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

And avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they beget strifes.

But the servant of the Lord must not wrangle: but be mild toward all men, apt to teach, patient,

With modesty admonishing them that resist the truth: if peradventure God may give them repentance to know the truth;

And they may recover themselves from the snares of the devil by whom they are held captive at his will.

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1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,
from verse 22
1 Peter 3:11
Let him decline from evil and do good: Let him seek after peace and pursue it:
from verse 22
Titus 3:2
To speak evil of no man, not to be litigious but gentle: shewing all mildness towards all men.
from verse 24
1 Corinthians 6:18
Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body: but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
from verse 22
1 Timothy 6:11
But thou, O man of God, fly these things: and pursue justice, godliness, faith, charity, patience, mildness.
from verse 22
Psalms 119:9
¶ BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
from verse 22
James 1:19
You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger.
from verse 24
James 1:20
For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.
from verse 24
Hebrews 12:14
Follow peace with all men and holiness: without which no man shall see God.
from verse 22
1 Timothy 4:12
Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the faithful, in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity.
from verse 22
Psalms 66:18
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
from verse 22
Psalms 66:19
But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
from verse 22