1 Thessalonians 2:5

Paul's Approach To Ministry In Thessalonica

⁴ but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts. ⁵ For neither at any time used we flattering speech, as ye know, nor covetous pretence, God is witness: ⁶ nor sought we glory of men, neither of you, nor of others: though we might have expected maintenance, as the apostles of Christ.

Bear Witness

God is Witness

Can Testify

God Is Our Witness

No

Acts 20:33

I have coveted no one's silver, or gold, or apparel:

Romans 1:9

for God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how incessantly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

2 Peter 2:3

and by artful speeches they will make sale of you for gain. Whose judgement is long since hastening, and their destruction doth not slumber.

Matthew 22:16

And they send to Him their disciples along with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art a man of truth, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest for any man; for thou regardest not the person of men: Tell us therefore what thou thinkest,

Matthew 23:13

But wo unto you scribes and pharisees, hypocrites, who shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, nor suffer those that are entering to go in.

Romans 9:1

I say the truth in Christ, I lye not, (my conscience bearing me witness in the holy Ghost,)

Romans 16:18

and avoid them; for such people serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by a soothing address and good words deceive the hearts of the innocent.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not like many who adulterate the word of God: but as with sincerity, but as from God, and in the sight of God, we speak concerning Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:2

but have rejected shameful disguises, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth, recommending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 7:2

Receive us---we have injured no man, we have corrupted no one, we have over-reached no one.

2 Corinthians 12:17

But did I make a gain of you by any of those whom I sent to you?

Galatians 1:20

(Now in what I write to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.)

1 Thessalonians 2:10

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and justly, and unblameably we behaved towards you that believe:

1 Timothy 3:3

hospitable, able to teach, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of sordid gain, moderate, not quarrelsome,

1 Timothy 3:8

The deacons should likewise be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of base gain,

Titus 1:7

For a bishop must be blameless as the steward of God, not self-willed, not passionate, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of sordid gain:

1 Peter 5:2

taking the episcopal charge of it, not by constraint, but willingly; not for shameful lucre, but with a ready mind:

2 Peter 2:14-15

having eyes full of adultery, and which cannot be restrained from sin: ensnaring unstable souls, and having a heart practised in rapine; cursed people:

2 Peter 2:18

For when they speak swelling words of vanity, they ensnare in the lusts of the flesh, through their lasciviousness, those who had indeed withdrawn from such as deal in error;

Jude 1:11

Wo unto them; for they have gone in the way of Cain, and been carried away by Balaam's error, the love of lucre, and perished as in the contradiction of Korah.

Revelation 18:12-13

the lading of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and pearl, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and all sorts of thyine wood, and vessels of ivory, and of the most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;