(NASB) 1 Corinthians 13:6 Love…“does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth.”

Before you asked Jesus to be your Savior, what was your life like?  Was it filled with anger or bitterness, or self-pity or fear, or desperation or other negative feelings which consumed your thinking?  Any of these conditions are a miserable way to live.

Did you have joy in being unrighteous?  Unrighteousness is being outside of God’s love and will, the boundaries He sets.  To be in a right relationship with Him (which He has established), is to agree with Him by thought, word and action.

Perhaps you have one or more of these same conditions even though you are a Christian.


(NASB) 1 John 2:15-17 “Do not love the world nor the things in the world.  If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.”
17 The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.”

The Truth of God

reveals the awfulness of unrighteousness.

What is the way in which God directs us?
(NASB) 1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”