Truth matters
Don't spread false rumors. ~ Exodus 23:1a (CEB)
Paul wrote: Concentrate on doing your best for God, work you won’t be ashamed of, laying out the truth plain and simple. ~ 2 Timothy 2:15 (MSG)
SUMMARY SENTENCE Be extreme about speaking truthfully.
PRAYER Jesus, you are the way, the truth, and the life. Forgive me for trying to spin out my own version of truth to accomplish my own objectives. Help me to concentrate on communicating what you would consider to be truth. I want to be known by you and others as a straight shooter. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
