He who is walking faultlessly and practicing righteousness and speaking the truth in his heart.” (Psalm 15:1, 2)

18. (a) What does friendship with God require? (b) What will be discussed in the next article?

¹⁸ Anyone who wants Jehovah’s friendship must speak the truth “in his heart,” not merely with his lips. True friends of God must be honest of heart and must give evidence of “faith without hypocrisy,” for acts of truthfulness come from the heart. (1 Timothy 1:5; Matthew 12:34, 35) A friend of God is not devious or deceptive, for “a man of . . . deception Jehovah detests.” (Psalm 5:6) Jehovah’s Witnesses throughout the earth work hard at being truthful in imitation of their God.