27 Bible Verses about Sincereity

And ye have sought Me, and have found, for ye seek Me with all your heart;

Then said he to the multitudes coming forth to be baptised by him, 'Brood of vipers! who did prompt you to flee from the coming wrath? make, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have a father -- Abraham; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham;

so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.

For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.

and all, whatever ye may do -- out of soul work -- as to the Lord, and not to men, having known that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance -- for the Lord Christ ye serve;

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

so also my heavenly Father will do to you, if ye may not forgive each one his brother from your hearts their trespasses.'

The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ; not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul, with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in his mouth,

concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,

not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,

The grace with all those loving our Lord Jesus Christ -- undecayingly! Amen.

'And now, fear ye Jehovah, and serve Him, in perfection and in truth, and turn aside the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve ye Jehovah;

And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

for our exhortation is not out of deceit, nor out of uncleanness, nor in guile, but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts, for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God is witness!)

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,

For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart is mischiefs, An open grave is their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords.

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

for your proving the things that differ, that ye may be pure and offenceless -- to a day of Christ,

O the happiness of a man, To whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit.