1 Thessalonians 2:4

Paul's Approach To Ministry In Thessalonica

³ For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile; ⁴ but even as we have been approved of God to have the glad tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proves our hearts. ⁵ For we have not at any time been among you with flattering discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for covetousness, God is witness;

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Entrusted with the Gospel

Good News

Preach the Gospel

Put In Trust With The Gospel

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Galatians 1:10

For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's bondman.

Galatians 2:7

but, on the contrary, seeing that the glad tidings of the uncircumcision were confided to me, even as to Peter that of the circumcision,

Romans 8:27

But he who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for saints according to God.

Psalm 17:3

Thou hast proved my heart, thou hast visited me by night; thou hast tried me, thou hast found nothing: my thought goeth not beyond my word.

Numbers 27:16

Let Jehovah, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the assembly,

1 Kings 8:39

then hear thou in the heavens, the settled place of thy dwelling, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest (for thou, thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men),

1 Chronicles 29:17

And I know, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart have I willingly offered all these things; and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, offer willingly to thee.

Psalm 7:9

Oh let the wrong of the wicked come to an end, and establish thou the righteous man; even thou that triest the hearts and reins, the righteous God.

Psalm 44:21

Would not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

Psalm 139:1-2

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known me.

Proverbs 17:3

The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but Jehovah trieth the hearts.

Jeremiah 17:10

I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

Jeremiah 32:19

great in counsel and mighty in work, whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the children of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

Luke 12:42

And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and prudent steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give the measure of corn in season?

Luke 16:11

If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?

John 2:24-25

But Jesus himself did not trust himself to them, because he knew all men,

John 21:17

He says to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, art thou attached to me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Art thou attached to me? and said to him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I am attached to thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

1 Corinthians 2:4-5

and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;

1 Corinthians 4:1-2

Let a man so account of us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

1 Corinthians 7:25

But concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give my opinion, as having received mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

1 Corinthians 9:17

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration.

2 Corinthians 4:2

But we have rejected the hidden things of shame, not walking in deceit, nor falsifying the word of God, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.

2 Corinthians 5:11

Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade men, but have been manifested to God, and I hope also that we have been manifested in your consciences.

2 Corinthians 5:16

So that we henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know him thus no longer.

Ephesians 3:8

To me, less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, to announce among the nations the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of the Christ,

Ephesians 6:6

not with eye-service as men-pleasers; but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,

Colossians 3:22

Bondmen, obey in all things your masters according to flesh; not with eye-services, as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing the Lord.

1 Timothy 1:11-13

according to the glad tidings of the glory of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

1 Timothy 6:20

O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge,

2 Timothy 1:14

Keep, by the Holy Spirit which dwells in us, the good deposit entrusted.

2 Timothy 2:2

And the things thou hast heard of me in the presence of many witnesses, these entrust to faithful men, such as shall be competent to instruct others also.

Titus 1:3

but has manifested in its own due season his word, in the proclamation with which I have been entrusted, according to the commandment of our Saviour God;

Hebrews 4:13

And there is not a creature unapparent before him; but all things are naked and laid bare to his eyes, with whom we have to do.

Revelation 2:23

and her children will I kill with death; and all the assemblies shall know that I am he that searches the reins and the hearts; and I will give to you each according to your works.