Thematic Bible: Should characterize


Thematic Bible




And our exhortation originated not from delusion, or impurity, or from guile; but as we have been approved of God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts. For neither at any time used we insinuating language, as ye know, nor a pretext for covetousness; God is witness:




I speak not by commandment, but because of the forwardness of others, and to prove the genuineness of your love. Verse ConceptsGenuinenessLove, Nature OfSincerity, In Christian LivingComparisonsSincereityLove Exists Between PeopleMen's OrdersTests

Therefore shew unto them, and in the presence of the churches, a proof of your love, and of our [just] boasting in you. Verse ConceptsProof, As EvidenceBenevolenceProofsBoasting


But the hour is coming, yea, is now come, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such worshippers of him. God is a Spirit: and they who worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth.




I speak not by commandment, but because of the forwardness of others, and to prove the genuineness of your love. Verse ConceptsGenuinenessLove, Nature OfSincerity, In Christian LivingComparisonsSincereityLove Exists Between PeopleMen's OrdersTests

Therefore shew unto them, and in the presence of the churches, a proof of your love, and of our [just] boasting in you. Verse ConceptsProof, As EvidenceBenevolenceProofsBoasting