27 Bible Verses about Sincereity
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Ye shall seek me, and find me: Yea, if so be that ye seek me with your whole heart,
Then said he to the people that were come to be baptised of him, "O generation of vipers: who hath taught you to fly away from the wrath to come? Bring forth due fruits of repentance; And begin not to say in yourselves, we have Abraham to our father. For I say unto you: God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Therefore let us keep holiday, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of maliciousness and wickedness - but with the sweet bread of pureness and truth.
Our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in singleness of heart and with godly pureness - and not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God - we have had our conversation in the world, and most of all to you-wards.
For we are not as many are, which chop and change with the word of God: but even out of pureness, and by the power of God and in the sight of God, so speak we in Christ.
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as though ye did it to the Lord, and not unto men, forasmuch as ye know that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of inheritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ.
And forasmuch as ye have purified your souls through the spirit, in obeying the truth for to love brotherly without feigning, see that ye love one another with a pure heart, fervently:
But above all things, have fervent love among you. For love covereth the multitude of sins.
My little children, let us not love in word, nor with the tongue: but with the deed, and of a truth:
So like wise shall my heavenly father do unto you, except ye forgive with your hearts, each one to his brother their trespasses."
Servants, be obedient unto your carnal masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your hearts, as unto Christ: not with service in the eyesight, as men-pleasers: but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart with good will, even as though serving the Lord and not men.
Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the praise of God.
Above all things, show thyself an example of good works with uncorrupt doctrine, with honesty,
This say I not as commanding: but because others are so fervent, therefore prove I your love, whether it be perfect or no.
Grace be with all them which love our Lord Jesus Christ in pureness. Amen. {Sent from Rome unto the Ephesians by Tychicus.}
And now, fear the LORD and serve him in pureness and truth: And put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the water, and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.
For the end of the commandment is love that cometh of a pure heart and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
Let love be without dissimulation. Hate that which is evil, and cleave unto that which is good.
Our exhortation was not to bring you to error, nor yet to uncleanness, neither was it with guile: but as we were allowed of God, that the gospel should be committed unto us: even so we speak, not as though we intended to please men, but God, which trieth our hearts. Neither was our conversation at any time with flattering words - as ye well know - neither in cloaked covetousness, God is record:
and as newborn babes desire that reasonable milk which is without corruption, that ye may be grown therein.
The one part preacheth Christ of strife, and not purely, supposing to add more adversity to my bonds.
For there is no faithfulness in their mouths; they dissemble in their hearts. Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Their mouths are softer than butter, and yet have they battle in their mind: their words are smoother than oil, and yet be they very swords.
Wherefore, lay aside all maliciousness, and all guile, and dissimulation, and envy, and all backbiting:
that ye might accept things most excellent, that ye might be pure and such as should hurt no man's conscience, until the day of Christ;
Blessed is the man, unto whom the LORD imputeth no sin, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
