And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.

I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.

Speaking the truth

And she said to him, Why do you say you are my lover when your heart is not mine? Three times you have made sport of me, and have not made clear to me the secret of your great strength.

Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.

Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.

If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food,

And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.

May

In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord;

I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.

Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.

General references

They will not go after another who is not their keeper, but will go from him in flight, because his voice is strange to them.

For, as we have a number of parts in one body, but all the parts have not the same use,