2 Timothy 2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. We have read that "a debtor seeing a bailiff in quest of him ran three miles to a boundary, beyond which he was safe." The bailiff, seeming calmly to submit to his failure, stretched out his hand and said, "Well, let us part good friends, at any rate." The debtor, off his guard, accepted the offered hand, whereupon the bailiff, with a desperate effort, pulled him across the line, and clapping him on the shoulder, said, "You are my prisoner." So men may be overcome by the evil one when they least expect an assault from him, and think themselves most safe. (Sunday School Teacher.) Parallel Verses KJV: Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. |
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