which has come to you, just as in all the world also it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since the day you heard of it and understood the grace of God in truth;
and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.
in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.
But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.
who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying) as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
but in case I am delayed, I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.
men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.
and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.
men who have gone astray from the truth saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and they upset the faith of some.
with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth,
always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.
Paul, a bond-servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of God and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
not paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.
My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and one turns him back,
Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart,
Therefore, I will always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them, and have been established in the truth which is present with you.
Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned;
If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth;
If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.
We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before Him
We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not only I, but also all who know the truth,
for the sake of the truth which 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 Son of the Father, in truth and love.
I was very glad to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have received commandment to do from the Father.
The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.
For I was very glad when brethren came and testified to your truth, that is, how you are walking in truth.
I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.
Therefore we ought to support such men, so that we may be fellow workers with the truth.
Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself; and we add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.
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