but have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but commending ourselves by the manifestation of the truth to every conscience of men before God.

I do not speak by command, but on account of the diligence of others, and to prove the genuineness of your love;

Speaking the truth

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

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor evil, adhere to that which is good,

And if a brother or sister is naked, or destitute of daily food,

Having purified your souls by obeying the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another fervently, from the heart,

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

May

by which all the building being fitted together grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

as new born babes desire earnestly the pure milk of the word, that you may grow by it to salvation,

but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever.

General references

But a stranger they will 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 the members have not the same office,