27 Bible Verses about Sincereity
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Therefore he was saying to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, "Offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance! And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham [as] father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
So then, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old leaven or with the leaven of wickedness and sinfulness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
For our reason for boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, in holiness and purity of motive from God, not in merely human wisdom, but by the grace of God.
For we are not like the majority who peddle the word of God, but as from pure motives--but as from God--we speak before God in Christ.
Whatever you do, accomplish [it] from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to people, [because you] know that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. Serve the Lord Christ.
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from the heart,
Above all, keep your love for one another constant, because love covers a large number of sins.
Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.
So also my heavenly Father will do to you, unless each of you forgives his brother from your hearts!"
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ, not {while being watched}, as people pleasers, but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart, serving with goodwill as to the Lord and not to people,
Therefore, whether you eat or you drink or whatever you do, do all [things] for the glory of God.
who did not commit sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth,
concerning everything showing yourself [to be] an example of good deeds, in your teaching [demonstrating] soundness, dignity,
I am not saying [this] as a command, but proving the genuineness of your love by means of the diligence of others.
"So now, revere Yahweh and serve him in sincerity and faithfulness; remove the gods that your ancestors served beyond the river and in Egypt, and serve Yahweh.
But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a faith without hypocrisy,
Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what [is] evil; be attached to what [is] good,
For our exhortation [is] not from error or from impurity or with deceit, but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, thus we speak, not as pleasing people but God, who examines our hearts. {For never} did we come with a word of flattery, just as you know, nor with a pretext of greediness (God [is] witness),
like newborn infants long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,
The latter [do so] from love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.
For there is not [anything] reliable in his mouth; their inner part [is] destruction. Their throat is an open grave; [with] their tongue they speak deceit.
The {buttery words} of his mouth were smooth, but [there was] battle in his heart. His words were smoother than oil, but they [were] drawn swords.
Therefore, ridding yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,
so that you may approve what is superior, in order that you may be sincere and blameless in the day of Christ,
Happy [is] a person to whom Yahweh does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is not deceit.
