1 Thessalonians 2:4
Instead, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, not in order to please men but God, who examines our hearts.
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In Context
3For our appeal does not arise from deceit or ulterior motives or trickery.
5As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness!
Cross References
Numbers 27:16“May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation
2 Kings 16:16So Uriah the priest did just as King Ahaz had commanded.
Psalms 7:9Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.
Psalms 44:21would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
Proverbs 17:3A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.
Jeremiah 32:19the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 2:2-7
The Primitive Ministers. ( a. d. 51.) 1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain: 2 But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention. 3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: 4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our… Read the whole commentary →