Thematic Bible: Should characterize


Thematic Bible




For my preaching was not grounded on a delusion, or on impure motives, on in deceit. But as my fitness to be entrusted with the gospel has been tested and approved by God, I so speak, not to please men, but to please God, who is testing my motives. For as you well know, I never resorted to flattery, nor to any pretext for enriching myself. God is my witness!




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. Verse ConceptsGenuinenessLove, Nature OfSincerity, In Christian LivingComparisonsSincereityLove Exists Between PeopleMen's OrdersTests

So show to the churches an evidence of your love, and a justification to these brothers of my boasting about you. Verse ConceptsProof, As EvidenceBenevolenceProofsBoasting


But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father is seeking such as his worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."




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. Verse ConceptsGenuinenessLove, Nature OfSincerity, In Christian LivingComparisonsSincereityLove Exists Between PeopleMen's OrdersTests

So show to the churches an evidence of your love, and a justification to these brothers of my boasting about you. Verse ConceptsProof, As EvidenceBenevolenceProofsBoasting