DAY 18 OF 21 · Wisdom for daily life
Respond to Enemies Wisely
Wisdom refuses revenge and overcomes evil with intentional good.
PRIMARY PASSAGE
Proverbs 25:21–22
Read this passage slowly in your Bible before continuing. My Daily Altar uses the King James Version for its English Scripture experience.
BIBLICAL CONTEXT
Listen to the passage on its own terms.
Paul applies this proverb directly to Christian conduct. Kindness toward an enemy is not agreement with wrongdoing; it is a refusal to let wrongdoing reproduce itself within us.
Reflect
How has another person’s wrong begun to shape my own character?
Respond
Pray for the person and choose one response that does not imitate the harm.
Pray
Jesus, keep bitterness from mastering me and teach me to overcome evil with good.
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