Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.

in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;

As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, nobody in the regions of Achaia will stop this boasting of mine.

Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say,

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

We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.

When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth?

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,

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.

when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus.

Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body.

(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)

Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place,

and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

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.

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

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.

They must keep hold of the deep truths of the faith with a clear conscience.

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.

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.