but have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every mans conscience in the sight of God.

I speak not by way of command, but by reason of the earnestness of others, and to prove the genuineness of your love.

Speaking the truth

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

Let your love be unfeigned. 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 unto unfeigned brotherly love, love one another from the heart, fervently;

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

May

in whom all the building, fitly framed together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord;

as newborn babes, desire the spiritual, pure milk, that ye may grow thereby to salvation;

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

General references

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

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