22 Bible Verses about Sincereity
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So he would say to the crowds that came out there to be baptized by him, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to fly from the wrath that is coming? Then produce fruit that will be consistent with your professed repentance! And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather,' for I tell you, God can produce descendants for Abraham right out of these stones!
So let us keep the festival, not with old yeast nor with the yeast of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth.
For my boast is what my conscience tells me, that my relations to the world and still more to you have been marked by pure motives and godly sincerity, not by worldly shrewdness but by the favor of God.
For I am no peddler of God's message, like most men, but like a man of sincerity, commissioned by God and in his presence, in union with Christ I utter his message.
Work at everything you do with all your hearts, as work done not for men only but for the Lord, for you know that it is from him that you are to receive that inheritance which is to be your reward. Think of Christ as the master you are working for.
Now that by obeying the truth you have purified your souls for sincere love of the brotherhood, you must love one another intensely and heartily,
Above all keep your love for one another strong, because love covers up a host of sins.
Dear children, let us love not with words or lips only but in reality and truth.
That is what my heavenly Father will do to you, if you do not each forgive your brothers from your hearts!"
You who are slaves, obey your earthly masters, in reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would the Christ, not with mere external service, as though you had only men to please, but like slaves of Christ, carrying out the will of God. Do your duties heartily and willingly, as though it were for the Lord, not for men,
So whether you are eating or drinking or doing anything else, do it all to the honor of God.
He committed no sin, and deceit was never on his lips.
In every way set them an example of good conduct yourself. Teach with sincerity and seriousness,
I do not mean this as a command. I only want to test the genuineness of your love by the devotion of others.
The aim of your instruction must be love that springs from a pure heart and from a good conscience and from a sincere faith.
Your love must be genuine. You must hate what is wrong, and hold to what is right.
For our appeal does not rest on a delusion, nor spring from any impure motive; there is no fraud about it. God has thought us fit to be intrusted with the good news, and so we tell it, making no effort to please men, but to please God, who tests our hearts. We never used flattery, as you know, or found pretexts for making money, as God is our witness.
and like new-born babes crave the pure spiritual milk that will make you grow up to salvation,
These latter do it from love for me, for they know that God has put me where I am to defend our right to preach the good news.
Free yourselves, therefore, from all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of any kind,
so that you may have a sense of what is vital, and may be men of transparent character and blameless life, in preparation for the Day of Christ,
