And now you Gentiles have also heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago.

Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth.

Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church.

Since you have heard about Jesus and have learned the truth that comes from him,

So stop telling lies. Let us tell our neighbors the truth, for we are all parts of the same body.

Stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth and the body armor of God’s righteousness.