Speaking The Truth In Love

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

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

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

These <FI>are<Fi> the things that ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates,

and the truth shall make you free.'

from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him--head over all things to the assembly,

And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

Cause me to tread in Thy truth, and teach me, For Thou <FI>art<Fi> the God of my salvation, Near Thee I have waited all the day.

rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations, — read the full passage →

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

if we may say--`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ; — read the full passage →

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

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth, — read the full passage →

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

having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

Pilate, therefore, said to him, `Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, `Thou dost say <FI>it<Fi> ; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'

for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;

and when He may come--the Spirit of truth--He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;

in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord,

greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

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,

An abomination to Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> lying lips, And stedfast doers <FI>are<Fi> his delight.

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;

being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;

the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you.

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

Joy <FI>is<Fi> to a man in the answer of his mouth, And a word in its season--how good!

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

Show me, O Jehovah, Thy way, I walk in Thy truth, My heart doth rejoice to fear Thy name.

The sum of Thy word <FI>is<Fi> truth, And to the age <FI>is<Fi> every judgment of Thy righteousness!

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips--ruin to him!

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,

And himself is the head of the body--the assembly--who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all <FI>things<Fi> --himself--first, — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

Jesus saw Nathanael coming unto him, and he saith concerning him, `Lo, truly an Israelite, in whom guile is not;'

And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness--and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.

And she saith unto him, `How dost thou say, I have loved thee, and thy heart is not with me? these three times thou hast played upon me, and hast not declared to me wherein thy great power <FI>is<Fi> .'

I am as dew to Israel, he flourisheth as a lily, And he striketh forth his roots as Lebanon. — read the full passage →

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.

and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send--Jesus Christ;

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

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

He who is walking uprightly, And working righteousness, And speaking truth in his heart.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth,

In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips <FI>is<Fi> wise.

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

The Elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth!

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers,

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

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

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

Whoso uttereth faithfulness declareth righteousness, And a false witness--deceit.

For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips <FI>is<Fi> wickedness.

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

Many waters are not able to quench the love, And floods do not wash it away. If one give all the wealth of his house for love, Treading down--they tread upon it.

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek His face continually.

`Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: The fast of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth <FI>months<Fi> , are to the house of Judah for joy and for rejoicing, and for pleasant appointed seasons, and the truth and the peace they have loved.

Send forth Thy light and Thy truth, They--they lead me, they bring me in, Unto Thy holy hill, and unto Thy tabernacles.

because if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth,

How wonderful have been thy loves, my sister-spouse, How much better have been thy loves than wine, And the fragrance of thy perfumes than all spices.