Speaking The Truth In Love

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles, — read the full passage →

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ; — read the full passage →

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. — read the full passage →

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who know the truth;

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.