”Stay away from every kind of evil.” (v. 22)

The word is not “most.”

The word is not “only the worst kinds.”

The word is not “everything except what you think you can handle in your Christian freedom.”

The word is EVERY.

“Stay away from every kind of evil.”

If you’ve ever wondered how far you ought to run in repentance, how diligent you ought to be in purity, and how cautious you ought to be in the world, this sums it up: “Stay away from every kind of evil.” The extent to which you permit darkness in your moral life is the extent to which you have denied the day light He has shone on your life.

So stop permitting it! And stop playing around with it! Instead, put it away and turn around, in repentance.

That’s our only right response to every kind of evil.

— Tyler