For our exhortation is not from error or from impurity or with deceit, but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, thus we speak, not as pleasing people but God, who examines our hearts. For never[a] did we come with a word of flattery, just as you know, nor with a pretext of greediness (God is witness),

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:5 Literally “for neither ever”