Overcome Evil With Good

OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD
Romans 12:21

TRANSLATIONS

"But overcome evil with good" --- NASB, KJV, NIV, RSV, NKJV, ASV, Lamsa, Berkeley

"But overcome evil with goodness" --- McCord

"Get the best of evil by doing good" --- Message

"But conquer evil with good" --- NAB, Goodspeed

"But conquer evil by doing good" --- LB

"Take the offensive -- overpower evil with good!" --- Phillips

"But keep on conquering evil with good" --- Williams

"But use good to defeat evil" --- NEB

"Instead, conquer evil with good" --- TEV

"Defeat evil by doing good" --- NCV

"Instead, use good to defeat evil" --- SEB

"But keep conquering the evil with the good" --- NWT

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
Exodus 23:4-5 Matthew 5:44 Luke 6:27-36
COMMENTARY
"We overcome our foes when we win them to be lovers. We overcome the men around us when we are not seduced by their example to evil, but attract them to goodness by ours" (Maclaren, p. 303-304).
"The only real way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend" (Barclay, p. 184).
"Show them the loveliness of a better spirit; the power of kindness and benevolence; the value of an amiable, Christian deportment. So doing, you may disarm them of their rage, and be the means of bringing them to better minds" (Barnes, p. 290).
"To receive kindness, to see love when it seems uncalled for, can melt the hardest heart" (Expos. Comm., p. 135).
"An enemy is more easily overcome by kindness than by hostility" (Clarke, p. 143).

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