Hate evil

I looked this up in two different commentaries because "the fear of the Lord..." was a little confusing to me in this context.

John MacArthur wrote: "Wisdom hates what God hates. The highest virtue is humility (submission to God), and thus wisdom hates pride and self-exaltation above all."*

The Enduring Word bible app said: "Reverence for God (and the wisdom that comes from it) is not neutral towards evil. Like the God it respects, it hates evil, along with the pride and arrogance and perverse mouth that often express evil."**

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;

Pride and arrogance and the evil way

And the perverse mouth I hate

Proverbs 8:13 NKJV

* MacArthur, John (1997). The MacArthur Study Bible, New King James version.
     Thomas Nelson, Inc. Nashville, TN.
** Guzik, David (2018). Enduring Word. Bible commentary app.

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Please join me this week in praying for ourselves and others that we may avoid the characteristics and actions that God hates. Pray for direction and strength to be more Christlike. Pray that we come closer to the Father by getting to know Him better, through Scripture and prayer. And finally, pray that by doing these things, non-believers will see Christ through us and our actions and want the peace and joy and hope that we have because of Him who first loved us.

 

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