3 John 11

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¹¹Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good.^(A) Anyone who does what is good is from God.^(B) Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.^(C)

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Isaiah 1:16-17

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¹⁶Wash^(A) and make yourselves clean.
    Take your evil deeds out of my sight;^(B)
    stop doing wrong.^(C)
¹⁷Learn to do right;^(D) seek justice.^(E)
    Defend the oppressed.^[a]^(F)
Take up the cause of the fatherless;^(G)
    plead the case of the widow.^(H)

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Isaiah 1:17 Or justice. / Correct the oppressor

Psalm 37:27

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²⁷Turn from evil and do good;^(A)
then you will dwell in the land forever.^(B)

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Ephesians 5:1

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5 ¹Follow God’s example,^(A) therefore, as dearly loved children^(B)

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1 Peter 3:11

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¹¹They must turn from evil and do good;
they must seek peace and pursue it.

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Psalm 34:14

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¹⁴Turn from evil and do good;^(A)
seek peace^(B) and pursue it.

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1 John 2:29

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²⁹If you know that he is righteous,^(A) you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.^(B)

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1 Peter 3:13

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¹³Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good?^(A)

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2 Timothy 3:10

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A Final Charge to Timothy

¹⁰You, however, know all about my teaching,^(A) my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,

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John 3:20

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²⁰Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.^(A)

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1 Thessalonians 2:14

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¹⁴For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators^(A) of God’s churches in Judea,^(B) which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people^(C) the same things those churches suffered from the Jews

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1 Thessalonians 1:6

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⁶You became imitators of us^(A) and of the Lord, for you welcomed the message in the midst of severe suffering^(B) with the joy^(C) given by the Holy Spirit.^(D)

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John 12:26

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²⁶Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be.^(A) My Father will honor the one who serves me.

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John 10:27

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²⁷My sheep listen to my voice; I know them,^(A) and they follow me.^(B)

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Exodus 23:2

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²“Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice^(A) by siding with the crowd,^(B)

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1 John 3:6-9

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⁶No one who lives in him keeps on sinning.^(A) No one who continues to sin has either seen him^(B) or known him.^(C)

⁷Dear children,^(D) do not let anyone lead you astray.^(E) The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.^(F) ⁸The one who does what is sinful is of the devil,^(G) because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God^(H) appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.^(I) ⁹No one who is born of God^(J) will continue to sin,^(K) because God’s seed^(L) remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.