Thematic Bible: Should characterize


Thematic Bible




For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity, nor is it made with deceit; but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please men, but to please God who tests our hearts. For, as you know, we never used flattery nor a pretext for greed God is witness




I am not speaking this as a command, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others. Verse ConceptsGenuinenessLove, Nature OfSincerity, In Christian LivingComparisonsSincereityLove Exists Between PeopleMen's OrdersTests

Therefore openly before the churches, show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our boasting about you. Verse ConceptsProof, As EvidenceBenevolenceProofsBoasting


But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."




I am not speaking this as a command, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others. Verse ConceptsGenuinenessLove, Nature OfSincerity, In Christian LivingComparisonsSincereityLove Exists Between PeopleMen's OrdersTests

Therefore openly before the churches, show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our boasting about you. Verse ConceptsProof, As EvidenceBenevolenceProofsBoasting