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“See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:15).
When someone does something wrong to us, our first thought naturally is to try and think of some way to do something to them. The world has a saying, “Don’t get mad; get even!” We see this all the time in the world around us. If someone cuts someone else off while driving, he looks for a way to pay the other driver back. Sometimes it even involves shooting at the other car. Nations do this too. If one nation is attacked by a missile or a bomb, they do something back to whoever shot the missile.
Here in our verse we see the opposite of that. We are never to revenge ourselves, but to do what is good. That is sometimes hard to do, but it is what the Lord Jesus did. If we do something bad to someone else, we cannot turn around and tell them about the Lord Jesus. They will not want to listen to us. But if we treat them kindly, it will be much easier to tell them how to be saved.
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