You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth.
20 For
they speak [dabar] not peace [shalowm]: but
they devise [chashab] deceitful [mirmah] matters [dabar] against
them that are quiet [ragea`] in the land ['erets]. KJV-Interlinear
20 For they
do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they devise
words of deceit. ESV
Those who defy Christianity, do not seek to promote something that is better. They seek to promote deceit, contentiousness, debate.
They are divisive and argumentative. They are inordinately competitive, seeking only to put-down, for the purpose of demoralizing or promoting hate.
They seek only to advance themselves, at the expense of others, at any cost.
They are selfish and self-centered.
Rejection of truth, amounts to nothing more than the promotion of evil.
