1 Thessalonians 2:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ For our exhortation was not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deceit:

⁴ But as we were approved by God that the gospel should be committed to us: even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who proveth our hearts.

⁵ For neither have we used, at any time, the speech of flattery, as you know; nor taken an occasion of covetousness, God is witness: