For if I do wish to boast I will not be foolish, for I will be speaking the truth; but I refrain from this, so that no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me.

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

But we did not yield in subjection to them, even for an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, “If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?

So have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?

but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, that is, Christ,

and to put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not accept the love of the truth so as to be saved.

in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.

Stand Firm

But we should always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.

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

For this I was appointed as a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

but in case I am delayed, I write so that you will know how one should act in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.

and constant friction between people of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.

men who have gone astray from the truth, claiming that the resurrection has already taken place; and they are jeopardizing the faith of some.

with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth,

always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, worthless in regard to the faith.

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

Salutation

Paul, a bond-servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of God and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

not paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

Christ or Judgment

For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.