When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, he said of him, “Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”
and in their mouth no lie was found; they are blameless.
Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Happy are those to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;
It is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all those descended from Israel are Israelites,
Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples,
“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.”
Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.
For it is we who are the circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh—
They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you are Abraham’s children, you would do what Abraham did,
and needed no one to testify about anyone, for he himself knew what was in everyone.
Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.”