Quotes About Authenticity

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?

We are not commending ourselves to you again. Instead, we are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you can answer those who take pride in appearances rather than in the heart.

For some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is unimpressive, and his speaking is of no account.”

Such people should consider that what we are in our letters when absent, we will be in our actions when present.

Although I am not a polished speaker, I am certainly not lacking in knowledge. We have made this clear to you in every way possible.

Even if I wanted to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me,

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.

See what large letters I am using to write to you with my own hand!

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

For our appeal does not arise from deceit or ulterior motives or trickery.

This greeting is in my own hand—Paul. This is my mark in every letter; it is the way I write.

My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

For we did not follow cleverly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.

If we say we have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth.