He knows when you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake.

Proverbs 15:3 (KJV) – the eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

If you love God, also love your brother.

. . . And your enemy.

I John 4:21 (KJV) – and this commandment have we from him. That he who loveth God love his brother also.

Matthew 5:44 (KJV) – but I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

Knockoffs are substitutes, look-alikes, fake brands from the real ones.

Yet we settle for knockoffs when we worship other things over our Heavenly Father.

Exodus 20:3 (KJV) – thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Jesus loves hide-and-go-seek.

He’s seeking to save the lost.

Luke: 19:10 (KJV) – for the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

You can’t see in the dark.

Why stay in it?

John 8:12 (KJV) – then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Speak a good word to lift up your brother.

You never know what lurkes in the heart of man.

Proverbs 12:25 (KJV) – heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

We’re always trying to prove ourselves to man.

Prove to man qualities of righteousness and truth.

Ephesians 5:9-10 (KJV) – (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth:) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

Man have a way with words to deceive.

God has a way with those who disobey.

Ephesians 5:6-7 (KJV) – Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

Give the gift of forgiveness.

Ephesians 4:32 (KJV) – and be ye kind one to another. tender- hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Who would be left if we cast stones for our sins?

Not one. . .

Psalm 14:3 (KJV) – they are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.