⁸ As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as `are' grave, as many as `are' righteous, as many as `are' pure, as many as `are' lovely, as many as `are' of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

⁷ `But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

⁶ Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

³² The lips of the righteous know a pleasing thing, And the mouth of the wicked perverseness!

³¹ Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,

³² and the truth shall make you free.'

³³ They answered him, `Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say -- Ye shall become free?'

¹⁸ My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

¹⁵ be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

² He who is walking uprightly, And working righteousness, And speaking truth in his heart.

³ He hath not slandered by his tongue, He hath not done to his friend evil; And reproach he hath not lifted up Against his neighbour.

⁴ Despised in his eyes `is' a rejected one, And those fearing Jehovah he doth honour. He hath sworn to suffer evil, and changeth not;

²⁴ Turn aside from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee,

⁵ Every saying of God `is' tried, A shield He `is' to those trusting in Him.

¹⁸ having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

³⁰ The way of faithfulness I have chosen, Thy judgments I have compared,

²⁰ and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!

¹³ Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

⁶ if we may say -- `we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth;

⁴ greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

²⁴ God `is' a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

¹ And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

¹² And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

¹⁵ and, being true in love, we may increase to Him `in' all things, who is the head -- the Christ;

²⁷ and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.

⁵ Cause me to tread in Thy truth, and teach me, For Thou `art' the God of my salvation, Near Thee I have waited all the day.

⁴ For upright `is' the word of Jehovah, And all His work `is' in faithfulness.

²⁶ `And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;