12 Bible Verses about Pursuing Good

Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.

He who goes after righteousness and mercy will get life, righteousness, and honour.

Give ear to me, you who are searching for righteousness, who are looking for the Lord: see the rock from which you were cut out, and the hole out of which you were taken.

And let him be turned from evil and do good; searching for peace and going after it with all his heart.

Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;

What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.

So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another.

Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus.

I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.

But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour.