And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.

So he said to the people who went out to him for baptism: You offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come? Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham.

Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.

For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.

Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men; Being certain that the Lord will give you the reward of the heritage: for you are the servants of the Lord Christ.

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:

And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:

My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.

So will my Father in heaven do to you, if you do not everyone, from your hearts, give forgiveness to his brother.

Servants, do what is ordered by those who are your natural masters, having respect and fear for them, with all your heart, as to Christ; Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart; Doing your work readily, as to the Lord, and not to men:

So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Who did no evil, and there was no deceit in his mouth:

In all things see that you are an example of good works; holy in your teaching, serious in behaviour,

I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.

Grace be with all those who have true love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord.

But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:

Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.

For our witness does not come from error or from an unclean heart or from deceit: But even as the good news was given to us by the approval of God, so we give it out; not as pleasing men, but God by whom our hearts are tested. For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,

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;

These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news:

For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords.

So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;

Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.