Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good. -Romans 12:21 Another verse to add to the “Julie always thought of this wrong” pile! 🙂 The context really lends itself to thinking the “evil” here means “evil people,” and surely that is one valid meaning, but… life has taught me there’s a lot more evil to overcome within…
Richard Baxter Direct I. The principal help against sinful anger is, in the right habituating of the soul, that you live as under the government of God, with the sense of his authority still upon your hearts, and in the sense of that mercy that hath forgiven you, and forbeareth you, and under the power of his healing and assisting…
Anger is good when it is thus used to its appointed end, in a right manner and measure: but it is sinful, When it riseth up against God or any good, as if it were evil to us: as wicked men are angry at those that would convert and save them, and that tell them of their sins, and that…