[a]For our exhortation was not by deceit, nor [b]by uncleanness, nor by guile.

[c]But as we were [d]allowed of God, that the Gospel should be committed unto us, so we speak, not as they that please men, but God, which [e]approveth our hearts:

Neither yet did we ever use flattering words, as ye know, nor colored covetousness, God is record.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:3 To teach pure doctrine faithfully and with a pure heart.
  2. 1 Thessalonians 2:3 By any wicked and naughty kind of dealing.
  3. 1 Thessalonians 2:4 To approve his conscience to God, being free from all flattery and covetousness.
  4. 1 Thessalonians 2:4 Seeing there is this difference between the judgments of God and the judgments of men, that when men choose, they respect the qualities of those things which stand before them, but God findeth the reason of his counsel only in himself, it followeth, that seeing we are not able to think a good thought, that whomsoever he first chooseth to those holy callings, he maketh them able, and doth not find them able. And therefore in that we are allowed of God, it hangeth upon his mercy.
  5. 1 Thessalonians 2:4 Which liketh and alloweth them.

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