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Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate: it may be that Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
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A Change of Heart, Not Just Actions
The command to "hate evil and love good" is more than a call to change behavior; it's a call to transform your inner affections. Commentators explain that true repentance involves a passionate, internal shift. One scholar notes, "No virtue is safe until it is enthusiastic." This change of heart is the necessary foundation for the external fruit of establishing justice.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Hate the evil and love the good - A person will not entirely cease to “seek evil” unless they “hate” it; nor will they “seek good” …
19th Century
Anglican
Break in like a beam of sunshine in the darkness. The fearful doom, already spoken of, is after all conditional. Let a moral change be worked in th…
Baptist
National sins bring down national judgments; and when God grows angry against the people, he makes the places of their feasting, the vineyards wher…
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet impresses upon us the same truth; and he did this intentionally, for he saw that nothing was more difficult than to bring this people t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Hate the evil, and love the good Evil is not only not to be sought, but to be hated, especially the evil of sin, bec…
The same almighty power can, for repenting sinners, easily turn affliction and sorrow into prosperity and joy, and as easily turn the prosperity of…
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