Psalm 5:4-5 For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with you.… In the second century, Celsus, a celebrated adversary of Christianity, distorting our Lord's words, complained, "Jesus Christ came into the world to make the most horrible and dreadful society; for He calls sinners and not the righteous; so that the body He came to assemble is a body of profligates, separated from good men, among whom they before were mixed. He has rejected all the good and collected all the bad." "True," said in reply, "our Jesus came to call sinners — but — to repentance. He assembled wicked — but to convert them into new men, or rather to change them into angels. We come to Him covetous, He makes us liberal; lascivious, He makes us chaste; violent, He makes us meek; impious, He makes us religious." Parallel Verses KJV: For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.WEB: For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you. |
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