Romans 12:9

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. [Let] love be without dissimulation - `Let your love be unfeigned' (as in ; ; and see ).

Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. What a lofty tone of moral principle and feeling is here inculcated! It is not, Abstain from the one, and do the other; nor, Turn away from the one, and draw to the other; but, Abhor the one, and cling, with deepest sympathy, to the other. Probably Calvin and others are right in thinking that, as this precept both follows and precedes an injunction to pure affection, the "evil' to be abhorred here specially refers to whatever is unkind or injurious to a brother, and that the "good" to be clung to points to the reverse of this.