Bible Verses About Being Genuine

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.

3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

Let all your things be done with charity.

I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

Let all your things be done with charity.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.