but we have renounced shameful hidden things, not behaving with craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but with the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person's conscience before God.

I am not saying [this] as a command, but proving the genuineness of your love by means of the diligence of others.

Speaking the truth

And she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me how your strength is [so] great."

Happy [is] a person to whom Yahweh does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is not deceit.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said about him, "Look! {A true Israelite} in whom is no deceit!"

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what [is] evil; be attached to what [is] good,

If a brother or a sister is poorly clothed and lacking food for the day,

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently 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, joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily plant, and he will strike his roots like the [trees of] Lebanon.

But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise, with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like {fattened calves}.

like newborn infants long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up 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

And they will never follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

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