Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve Him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord. Only fear the Lord, and serve Him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things He hath done for you. That the Lord may continue His word which He spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said He) a man on the throne of Israel.
And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before Thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with Thee; and Thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that Thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before Thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are done in truth. They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness. The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in truth. Stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth.
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. If God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth. The acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness. He that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance. Live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth. The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth. For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance. Live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth. The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth. For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ. The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds. In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.
Grace be with all them
that love our Lord Jesus Christ
in sincerity.
