Thematic Bible: Should characterize


Thematic Bible




For the appeal we make does not come from error or impurity or with deceit, but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we declare it, not to please people but God, who examines our hearts. For we never appeared with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed -- God is our witness --






I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others.

Therefore show them openly before the churches the proof of your love and of our pride in you.


Now obey the Lord and worship him with integrity and loyalty. Put aside the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt and worship the Lord.

But a time is coming -- and now is here -- when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers. God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."








I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others.

Therefore show them openly before the churches the proof of your love and of our pride in you.


Now obey the Lord and worship him with integrity and loyalty. Put aside the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt and worship the Lord.




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