'Trying' in the Bible

It is not that we are trying to rule over your faith, but rather to work with you for your joy, because you have been standing firm in the faith.

We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may be able to answer those who take pride in outward appearance and not in what is in the heart.

We are trying to avoid any criticism of the way we are administering this great undertaking.

I don’t want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters.

Have you been thinking all along that we are trying to defend ourselves before you? We are speaking before God in the authority of the Messiah, and everything, dear friends, is meant to build you up.