2 Samuel 23:4-7

4he is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings grass from the earth.’

5“If my house were not right with God, surely he would not have made with me an everlasting covenant, arranged and secured in every part; surely he would not bring to fruition my salvation and grant me my every desire.

6But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns, which are not gathered with the hand.

7Whoever touches thorns uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear; they are burned up where they lie.”