²⁴ “Are you really my son Esau?” he asked.

“I am,” he replied.

⁹ Do not lie to each other,^(A) since you have taken off your old self^(B) with its practices

²⁵ Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully^(A) to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body.^(B)

⁷ Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory,^(A) why am I still condemned as a sinner?”^{(B) 8} Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”?^(C) Their condemnation is just!

¹⁶ These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth^(A) to each other, and render true and sound judgment^(B) in your courts;^(C)