22 Bible Verses about Sincereity
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To the crowds who came out to get baptized by him John said, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath? Now, produce fruits that answer to your repentance, instead of beginning to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
So let us celebrate our festival, not with any old leaven, not with vice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of innocence and integrity.
My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.
I am, for I am not like most, adulterating the word of God; like a man of sincerity, like a man of God, I speak the word in Christ before the very presence of God.
Whatever be your task, work at it heartily, as servants of the Lord and not of men; remember, you will receive from the Lord the inheritance which is your due; serve Christ your Lord and Master,
Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.
My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.
My heavenly Father will do the same to you unless you each forgive your brother from the heart."
Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters here below with reverence and trembling, with singleness of heart as to Christ himself; instead of merely working when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, do God's will from the heart like servants of Christ, by rendering service with goodwill as to the Lord and Master, not to men.
So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, let it be all done for the glory of God.
set them an example of good conduct; be sincere and serious in your teaching,
I am not issuing any orders, only using the zeal of others to prove how sterling your own love is.
Whereas the aim of the Christian discipline is the love that springs from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith.
Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.
For the appeal we make does not spring from any delusion or from impure motives ??it does not work by cunning; no, God has attested our fitness to be entrusted with the gospel, and so we tell the gospel not to satisfy men but to satisfy the God who tests our hearts. We never resorted to flattery (you know that), nor to any pretext for self-seeking (God is witness to that);
Like newly-born children, thirst for the pure, spiritual milk to make you grow up to salvation.
the latter do it from love to me, knowing that I am set here to defend the gospel,
So off with all malice, all guile and insincerity and envy and slander of every kind!
so that you may be transparent and no harm to anyone in view of the day of Christ,