Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.

As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, nobody in the regions of Achaia will stop this boasting of mine.

Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say,

For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.

We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.

When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth?

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.

when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus.

and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

Stand Firm

But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

And for this purpose I was appointed a herald and an apostle—I am telling the truth, I am not lying—and a true and faithful teacher of the Gentiles.

if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth.

and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.

who have departed from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they destroy the faith of some.

Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth,

always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.

They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ to further the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness—