Always pursue what is good

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Appointed

Human government’s authority derives from and is defined by God.  He instituted human government to reward good and to restrain sin in an evil, fallen world.

Commentary from the MacArthur study Bible, notes for Romans 13:1.

Overcome Evil

Work with the Lord in restraining evil with good.

Not Doing Good

Refusal to do good is equivalent to doing evil.

Opposite

Most of the Corinthian believers were the opposite of what Paul here admonished.  They were extremely experienced in evil, but greatly lacking in wisdom.

Commentary from the MacArthur study Bible, notes for 1 Corinthians 14:20. 

Evil company

By word or example, evil friends are a corrupting influence.  Hope in the resurrection is sanctifying; it leads to godly living, not corruption.  Some in the church did not know God and were a corrupting influence, but not for those who hoped for life in God’s presence (see John 3:2,3).

Commentary from the MacArthur study bible, notes for 1 Corinthians 15:33,34.

Who do you love?

For everyone who practices wicked things

hates the light and avoids it,

so that his deeds may not be exposed.

John 3:20

“Keep everything hazy in his mind now, and you will have all eternity wherein to amuse yourself by producing in him the peculiar kind of clarity which Hell affords.”  The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis, pg. 7