22 Bible Verses about Sincereity

he said therefore to the people that crowded to be baptized by him, ye brood of vipers, who has prompted you to flee from approaching wrath? let your actions therefore show your repentance, and don't pretend to say within yourselves, "we have Abraham for our father:" for I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with unaffected sincerity and truth.

for this is to me matter of glorying, the testimony of my conscience, that without artifice, and with religious sincerity, not by worldly wisdom, but by God's favourable assistance I have behaved my self towards all men, but more particularly to you.

for we are not like others, who adulterate the word of God; but we preach the pure gospel of Christ, as I receiv'd it from God, and as in the presence of God.

and whatever you do, do it heartily, as serving the Lord, and not men: knowing that as you are the servants of Christ our Lord, you shall receive from him the inheritance for your reward.

You that have purified your souls by the holy spirit, in obeying the gospel, which obliges you to an undisguised benevolence, let your hearts be mutually affected with the most disinterested ardour;

but above all, let your mutual benevolence be intense, for benevolence cancels a multitude of offences.

my dear children, let not our love be only in the language of our lips, but in the real effects of the heart.

in the same manner will my heavenly father likewise treat you, if ye do not sincerely forgive every one the trespasses of his brother.

Servants, be obedient to your legal masters, with awful reverence and sincerity of heart, as unto Christ: not doing your work meerly out of regard to their presence or their pleasure, but as the servants of Christ, in hearty obedience to the will of God: serve them with affection, as if it was to the Lord,

whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God.

leaving an example for your exact imitation, he who never offended, and from whose lips no fallacy was ever utter'd,

In all things show yourself a pattern of virtue: in teaching shewing uncorruptness,

I don't mean to prescribe to you, but that the zeal of others may show you are as sincerely well-affected.

grace be with all those that have love uncorrupted for our Lord Jesus Christ. amen.

such a charge will produce that charity, which arises from purity, from a good conscience, and a sincere belief:

Let love be without dissimulation. abhor that which is evil, adhere to that which is good.

for our doctrine was free from all imposture, avarice, and fraud. we preach the gospel just as God thought fit to intrust it with us, not being studious to please men, but God, who approves our sincerity. our address to you was without any flattery, as you yourselves can witness, and God is witness that we had no avarice to disguise.

which is without any mixture, and will make you thrive. Since you have tasted how good the Lord is,

those preach the gospel of Christ, not in sincerity, but from a principle of contention, with a view to inflame the persecution against me:

Renouncing therefore every kind of malice, and knavery, hypocrisy, envy, and detraction, as new-born infants desire that mystical milk,

that being capable to distinguish what is best, you may remain stedfastly sincere until the day of Christ,