1 Thessalonians 5:22
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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1 Thessalonians 5:22. Abstain from all appearance of evil.
By which is not meant as some read it, "from everything that somebody likes to say looks like evil." This would be to mar the Christian liberty. But wherever evil puts in an appearance, when it appears to be good, when it has been dressed out - for the word may refer to a Roman spectacle, or grand procession. Avoid evil even when dressed out in its best, when it comes on in all its gallant show to attract you. Avoid every species and kind of evil - that might almost be the translation - abstain from it altogether.