I disown disgraceful, underhanded ways. I refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's message. It is by the open statement of the truth that I would commend myself to every human conscience in the sight of God.

I do not mean this as a command. I only want to test the genuineness of your love by the devotion of others.

Speaking the truth

Your love must be genuine. You must hate what is wrong, and hold to what is right.

If some brother or sister has no clothes and has not food enough for a day,

Now that by obeying the truth you have purified your souls for sincere love of the brotherhood, you must love one another intensely and heartily,

Dear children, let us love not with words or lips only but in reality and truth.

May

Through him every part of the building is closely united and grows into a temple sacred through its relation to the Lord,

and like new-born babes crave the pure spiritual milk that will make you grow up to salvation,

You must grow in the blessing and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory to him now and forever.

General references

But they will never follow a stranger but will run away from him, because they do not know the voices of strangers."

For just as there are many parts united in our human bodies, and the parts do not all have the same function,