3 Letter of John
(3Jn vv. 1-4) My children are walking in the truth [1] The Presbyter to the beloved Gaius whom I love in truth. [2] Beloved, I hope you are prospering in every respect and are in good health, just as your soul is prospering. [3] I rejoiced greatly when some of the brothers came and testified to how truly you walk in the truth. [4] Nothing gives me greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
(CCC 2470) The disciple of Christ consents to "live in the truth," that is, in the simplicity of a life in conformity with the Lord's example, abiding in his truth. "If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not live according to the truth" (1 Jn 1:6). (CCC 2469) "Men could not live with one another if there were not mutual confidence that they were being truthful to one another" (St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II 109, 3 ad 1). The virtue of truth gives another his just due. Truthfulness keeps to the just mean between what ought to be expressed and what ought to be kept secret: it entails honesty and discretion. In justice, "as a matter of honor, one man owes it to another to manifest the truth" (St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II, 109, 3, corp. Art).
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