I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.

Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.

Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our manner of life in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

For we are not as many, who corrupt the word of God: but as from sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

For our exhortation was not from deceit, nor from impurity, nor in guile; But as we were allowed by God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts. For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: