22 Bible Verses about Sincereity
Most Relevant Verses
Accordingly John used to say to the crowds who came out to be baptized by him, "O vipers' brood, who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Live lives which shall prove your change of heart; and do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our forefather,' for I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones.
Therefore let us keep our festival not with old yeast nor with the yeast of what is evil and mischievous, but with bread free from yeast--the bread of transparent sincerity and of truth.
For the reason for our boasting is this--the testimony of our own conscience that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, and in reliance not on worldly wisdom but on the gracious help of God, that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and above all in our relations with you.
We are; for, unlike most teachers, we are not fraudulent hucksters of God's Message; but with transparent motives, as commissioned by God, in God's presence and in communion with Christ, so we speak.
Whatever you are doing, let your hearts be in your work, as a thing done for the Lord and not for men. For you know that it is from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. Christ is the Master whose bondservants you are.
Now that, through your obedience to the truth, you have purified your souls for cherishing sincere brotherly love, you must love another heartily and fervently.
Above all continue to love one another fervently, for love throws a veil over a multitude of faults.
Dear children, let us not love in words only nor with the lips, but in deed and in truth.
"In the same way my Heavenly Father will deal with you, if you do not all of you forgive one another from your hearts."
Slaves, be obedient to your earthly masters, with respect and eager anxiety to please and with simplicity of motive as if you were obeying Christ. Let it not be in acts of eye-service as if you had but to please men, but as Christ's bondservants who are doing God's will from the heart. With right good will, be faithful to your duty as service rendered to the Lord and not to man.
Whether, then, you are eating or drinking, or whatever you are doing, let everything be done to the glory of God.
He never sinned, and no deceitful language was ever heard from His mouth.
and above all make your own life a pattern of right conduct, having in your teaching no taint of insincerity, but a serious tone,
I am not saying this by way of command, but to test by the standard of other men's earnestness the genuineness of your love also.
But the end sought to be secured by exhortation is the love which springs from a pure heart, a clear conscience and a sincere faith.
Let your love be perfectly sincere. Regard with horror what is evil; cling to what is right.
For our preaching was not grounded on a delusion, nor prompted by mingled motives, nor was there fraud in it. But as God tested and approved us before entrusting us with His Good News, so in what we say we are seeking not to please men but to please God, who tests and approves our motives. For, as you are well aware, we have never used the language of flattery nor have we found pretexts for enriching ourselves--God is our witness;
Thirst, like newly-born infants, for pure milk for the soul, that by it you may grow up to salvation;
These latter preach Him from love to me, knowing that I am here for the defence of the Good News;
Rid yourselves therefore of all ill-will and all deceitfulness, of insincerity and envy, and of all evil speaking.
so that you may be men of transparent character, and may be blameless, in preparation for the day of Christ,
