1 Thessalonians 2:3
For our exhortation was not by deceite, nor by vncleannes, nor by guile.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:3Beholde, here I am: beare recorde of me before the Lord and before his Anointed. Whose oxe haue I taken? or whose asse haue I taken? or whome haue I done wrong to? or whome haue I hurt? or of whose hande haue I receiued any bribe, to blinde mine eyes therewith, and I will restore it you?
2 Corinthians 2:17For wee are not as many, which make marchandise of the woorde of God: but as of sinceritie, but as of God in ye sight of God speake we in Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:5For we preach not our selues, but Christ Iesus the Lord, and our selues your seruaunts for Iesus sake.
2 Corinthians 11:13For such false apostles are deceitfull workers, and transforme themselues into the Apostles of Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:5Neither yet did we euer vse flattering wordes, as ye knowe, nor coloured couetousnes, God is recorde.
1 Thessalonians 4:1And furthermore we beseeche you, brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Iesus, that ye increase more and more, as ye haue receiued of vs, how ye ought to walke, and to please God.
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 →