¹⁵ but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the ^(A)head—Christ—

¹⁸ My little children, ^(A)let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Do Not Grieve the Spirit

²⁵ Therefore, putting away lying, ^(A)“Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for ^(B)we are members of one another.

^18 (A)but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

^(B)To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

The Enduring Word

²² Since you ^(A)have purified your souls in obeying the truth ^[a]through the Spirit in ^[b]sincere ^(B)love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,

²¹ in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into ^(A)a holy temple in the Lord,

²² And ^(A)He put all things under His feet, and gave Him ^(B)to be head over all things to the church,

^2 (A)as newborn babes, desire the pure ^(B)milk of the word, that you may grow ^[a]thereby,

² But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor ^[a]handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth ^(A)commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.