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You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth?
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And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,
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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.
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when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus.
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Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body.
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(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)
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Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place,
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and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
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and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
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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.
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who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.
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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.
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They must keep hold of the deep truths of the faith with a clear conscience.
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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.
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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.
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If you point these things out to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished on the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed.
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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.
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Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
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who have departed from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they destroy the faith of some.
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Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth,
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always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
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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.
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They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
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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—
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and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the merely human commands of those who reject the truth.
