Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”
And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
And she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me where your great strength lies.”
I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.
I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon; his shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon. They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow; they shall flourish like the grain; they shall blossom like the vine; their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.
But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.
If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?
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