For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.
who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some.
correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,
always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.
and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness,
not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.
And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.
If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him;
We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth,
because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:
Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love.
I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father.
The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.
For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth.
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself. We also add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.
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