I have renounced the hidden things of shame, not spending my life in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but setting forth the truth openly, I strive to commend myself to every man's conscience as in the sight of God.

I do not say this by way of command, but by the zeal of others I am trying to prove the reality of your love.

Speaking the truth

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, and said, "Behold a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit."

Let love be without insincerity. Abhor what is evil; wed yourselves to what is good.

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

Now that by obedience to the truth you have purified your lives for a brotherly love without hypocrisy, you must love one another from your hearts, fervently.

My children, let us not love in word nor in talk, but in deed and in truth.

May

In him the whole building, fitly framed together, rises into a holy temple in the Lord;

Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation;

But grow continually in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and unto the Day of Eternity, Amen.

General references

"But a stranger they will not follow, but flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

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