The awake will never win the respect of the woke, nor should they want to. So, stop trying. Stop trying so hard to win the approval of people you don’t even like. If righteousness makes impressing wickedness its quarry, it loses before it begins. If it wins, it is no longer righteous and if it loses, it falls short of its goal. The righteous should not make a fetish of acquiring honor from the dishonorable. That is self-destructive empathy masquerading as Christ-like compassion. Give up that ghost and get with the program. The awake will never win over the woke.
1 Peter 4:3-5
The time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
Righteousness will never win the approval of wickedness. And it wouldn't want it even if it were offering. Stop trying to impress people who don't like you. Stop trying to gain the favor of people you don't like. You won't win anything by winning them over since the only way to gain their respect is by losing your own. The wicked will never admire the way of God. If they did, they’d no longer be wicked in their assessment. Only the ones made righteous by the grace of God admire and aspire toward righteousness.
The wicked man watches the righteous and rages. He clenches his jaw and his fists in impotent upset. But his envy will come to nothing. His wants evaporate before noon. The righteous, however, will rule with God forever. Therefore, they don't unravel or recoil at the sound of bad news. They don't believe the prophets of doom. The enemy may boast like one taking off his armor, but his hubris only leaves him fighting unprotected.
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