1 Thessalonians 2:6
Neither have we sought glory from men, either from you or from others, when we might have been chargeable as legates of the Messiah.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
5For at no time have we used flattering speech; as ye know; nor a cloak of cupidity, God is witness.
7But we were lowly among you; and like a nurse, who fondleth her children,
Cross References
John 5:41I do not receive glory from men.
John 7:18He that speaketh according to the pleasure of his own mind, seeketh glory for himself: but he who seeketh the glory of him that sent him, is veracious, and evil is not in his heart.
1 Corinthians 9:1Am I not a free man? Or, am I not a legate? Or, have I not seen Jesus Messiah our Lord? Or, have ye not been my work in my Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:12And if others have this prerogative over you, doth it not belong still more to us? Yet we have not used this prerogative; but we have endured every thing, that we might in nothing impede the announcement of the Messiah.
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 →