But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

Speaking the truth

And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

May

In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

General references

And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: