“Love must be without hypocrisy. Detest evil; cling to what is good.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭12:9‬ ‭HCSB‬‬

What is hypocrisy? the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform (copied from Google Dictionary). Loving evil while claiming to love good. Preaching hard against a certain sin while loving it at the same time. Claiming to love God while loving the world’s pleasures. 

To the outsider looking into our lives, we may look like hypocrites. We live in a fallen world while living with a fallen nature inside of us. But to God who sees the motives of the heart. He sees either a person who is trying to live for Him or someone who is not. We can look the part of a Christian on the outside, but are we a Christian on the inside?

How do we know what sins are? God has been very clear on this topic, while the church has begun to make it a muddy mess. 

“And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong. They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful. Although they know full well God’s just sentence — that those who practice such things deserve to die — they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.”

‭‭Romans‬ ‭1:28-32‬ ‭HCSB‬‬

https://www.bible.com/72/rom.1.28-32.hcsb

“But know this: Difficult times will come in the last days. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people!”

‭‭2 Timothy‬ ‭3:1-5‬ ‭HCSB‬‬

https://www.bible.com/72/2ti.3.1-5.hcsb

What are we to detest:

“Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance — as I told you before — that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.”

‭‭Galatians‬ ‭5:19-21‬ ‭HCSB‬‬

https://www.bible.com/72/gal.5.19-21.hcsb

What are we to cling to:

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”

‭‭Galatians‬ ‭5:22-24‬ ‭HCSB‬‬

https://www.bible.com/72/gal.5.22-24.hcsb

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭5:20‬ ‭HCSB‬‬

https://www.bible.com/72/isa.5.20.hcsb

It all comes down to this: Whatever is love do this, whatever is hate do not do this.