but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

I am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also.

Speaking the truth

Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have deceived me these three times and have not told me where your great strength is.”

How blessed is the man to whom the Lord

does not impute iniquity,

And in whose spirit there is no deceit!

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and *said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.

If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food,

Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a

sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart,

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

May

in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord,

I will be like the dew to Israel;
He will blossom like the lily,
And he will take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.

like newborn babies, long for the

pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,

but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

General references

A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”

For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function,