1 Thessalonians 2:3
For our appeal to you does not spring from deceit, impure motives, or trickery.
2 Corinthians 2:17
At least we are not commercializing God's word like so many others. Instead, we speak with sincerity in the Messiah's name, like people who are sent from God and are accountable to God.
2 Corinthians 4:2
Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not use trickery or pervert God's word. By clear statements of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.
Numbers 16:15
Moses was very angry, so he told the LORD, "Please don't accept their offering. I haven't taken even one donkey from them nor have I hurt even one of them."
1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am. Testify against me in the LORD's presence and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken? Who have I cheated? Who have I oppressed? Who bribed me to look the other way? I'll restore it to you."
Acts 20:33-34
I never desired anyone's silver, gold, or clothes.
2 Corinthians 7:2
Make room for us in your hearts! We have not treated anyone unjustly, harmed anyone, or cheated anyone.
2 Corinthians 12:16-18
Granting that I have not been a burden to you, was I a clever schemer who trapped you by some trick?
1 Thessalonians 2:5-6
As you know, we did not come with flattering words or with a scheme to make money. God is our witness!
1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God did not call us to be impure, but to be holy.
2 Corinthians 4:5
For we do not preach ourselves, but rather Jesus the Messiah as Lord, and ourselves as merely your servants for Jesus' sake.
2 Corinthians 11:13
Such people are false apostles, dishonest workers who are masquerading as apostles of the Messiah.
1 Thessalonians 2:11
You know very well that we treated each of you the way a father treats his children.
1 Thessalonians 4:1-2
Now then, brothers, you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, as in fact you are doing. We ask and encourage you in the Lord to do so even more.
2 Thessalonians 2:11
For this reason, God will send them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie.
2 Peter 1:16
When we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, we did not follow any clever myths. Rather, we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.