Charles Spurgeon Commentary 1 Thessalonians 5:20-22

"despise not prophesyings; prove all things; hold fast that which is good; abstain from every form of evil." — 1 Thessalonians 5:20-22 (ASV)

Despise not prophesyings. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil.

Not from that which other people choose to think evil, but from all real evil whatever it is – even from the very shadow that it casts and the shape which it assumes.