And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:
So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
For so you have the true end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;
Making distribution among one another of whatever has been given to you, like true servants of the unmeasured grace of God;
I have sent you this short letter by Silvanus, a true brother, in my opinion; comforting you and witnessing that this is the true grace of God; keep to it.
If in the fear of the Lord you are his servants, hearing his voice and not going against the orders of the Lord, but being true to the Lord your God, you and the king ruling over you, then all will be well:
Only go in the fear of the Lord, and be his true servants with all your heart, keeping in mind what great things he has done for you.
Then Ahimelech answering said to the king, Who among all your servants is so true to you as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is a captain of your armed men, and has a place of honour in your house?
And now, is it true, as they have said to me, that Saul is coming? O Lord, the God of Israel, give ear to your servant, and say if these things are so. And the Lord said, He is coming down.
And I will make a true priest for myself, one who will do what is in my heart and in my mind: and I will make for him a family which will not come to an end; and his place will be before my holy one for ever.
And Achish in answer said, It is true that in my eyes you are good, like an angel of God: but still, the rulers of the Philistines have said, He is not to go up with us to the fight.
But the servant said to him, See now, in this town there is a man of God, who is highly honoured, and everything he says comes true: let us go there now; it may be that he will give us directions about our journey.
For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,
I give praise to him who gave me power, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he took me to be true, making me his servant,
It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:
To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:
Whose desire is that all men may have salvation and come to the knowledge of what is true.
And of this I became a preacher and an Apostle (what I say is true, not false,) and a teacher of the Gentiles in the true faith.
This is a true saying, A man desiring the position of a Bishop has a desire for a good work.
Women are to be serious in behaviour, saying no evil of others, controlling themselves, true in all things.
But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.
Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.
This is a true saying, in which all may put their faith.
Do not take as true any statement made against one in authority, but only if two or three give witness to it.
Making ready for themselves a safe place for the time to come, so that the true life may be theirs.
If any man gives different teaching, not in agreement with the true words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the teaching which is in agreement with true religion,
Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.
But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit:
And after them, from all the tribes of Israel, all those whose hearts were fixed and true to the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to make offerings to the Lord, the God of their fathers.
And he did evil because his heart was not true to the Lord.
He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on building and all went well for them.
And they made an agreement to be true to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and all their soul;
And that anyone, small or great, man or woman, who was not true to the Lord, the God of Israel, would be put to death.
But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.
Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;
For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.
And the king said to him, Have I not, again and again, put you on your oath to say nothing to me but what is true in the name of the Lord?
Now, O Lord God, let your word to David my father come true; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in number.
And he gave them their orders, saying, You are to do your work in the fear of the Lord, in good faith and with a true heart.
The high places, however, were not taken away, and the hearts of the people were still not true to the God of their fathers.
And more than this, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, teaching the people of Jerusalem to go after false gods, and guiding Judah away from the true way.
And he went in search of Ahaziah; and when they came where he was, (for he was in a secret place in Samaria,) they took him to Jehu and put him to death; then they put his body to rest in the earth, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, whose heart was true to the Lord. So the family of Ahaziah had no power to keep the kingdom.
He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord.
He gave himself to searching after God in the days of Zechariah, who made men wise in the fear of God; and as long as he was true to the Lord, God made things go well for him.
This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God.
Now after these things and this true-hearted work, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came into Judah, and put his army in position before the walled towns of Judah, designing to make his way into them by force.
And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go out of the true way, so that they did more evil than those nations whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.
Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.
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