1 Thessalonians 2:5

Paul's Approach To Ministry In Thessalonica

⁴ for since we have been so approved by God as to be entrusted with the good news, we are now telling it, not to please men but God, who proves and finds approved our hearts. ⁵ Indeed, we never resorted to flattery, as you are well aware, nor to any pretext for making money; God is our witness. ⁶ We never sought praise from men, either from you or from anyone else; although as apostles we could have stood on our official dignity.

Bear Witness

God is Witness

Can Testify

God Is Our Witness

No

Acts 20:33

I have never coveted any man's silver or gold or clothes.

Romans 1:9

Indeed, my witness is God, whom I serve in my spirit by telling the good news about His Son, that I never fail to mention you every time I pray,

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed they will exploit you with messages manufactured by themselves. From of old their condemnation has not been idle and their destruction has not been slumbering.

Matthew 22:16

So they sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, to say to Him, "Teacher, we know that you are in the habit of telling the truth and of teaching the way of God in honesty, and you do not care what anyone says, for you are not partial.

Matthew 23:13

"A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees! For you bolt the doors of the kingdom of heaven in men's faces, for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you let those who are trying to do so go in.

Romans 9:1

I am telling the truth as a Christian man. I am telling no lie, because my conscience enlightened by the Holy Spirit is bearing me witness to this fact,

Romans 16:18

For such men are really not serving our Lord Christ but their own base appetites, and by their fair and flattering talk they are deceiving the hearts of unsuspecting people.

2 Corinthians 2:17

Now who is qualified for such a task? I am, for I am not a peddler of God's message, like the most of them, but like a man of sincerity, like a man that is sent from God and living in His presence, in union with Christ I speak His message.

2 Corinthians 4:2

On the other hand, I have renounced all underhanded, disgraceful methods; I neither practice cunning nor do I tamper with God's message, but by clear and candid statements of truth I try to commend myself to every human conscience in God's sight.

2 Corinthians 7:2

Make room for me in your hearts, I have not wronged or harmed or taken advantage of a single one of you.

2 Corinthians 12:17

I did not make any money out of you through anybody that I sent to you, did I?

Galatians 1:20

In writing you this, I swear before God, I am telling you the solemn truth.

1 Thessalonians 2:10

You can testify, and God too, with what pure, upright, and irreproachable motives I dealt with you who believed;

1 Timothy 3:3

not addicted to strong drink, not pugnacious, gentle and not contentious, not avaricious,

1 Timothy 3:8

Deacons, too, must be serious, sincere in their talk, not addicted to strong drink or dishonest gain,

Titus 1:7

For as God's trustee a pastor must be above reproach, not stubborn or quick-tempered or addicted to strong drink or pugnacious or addicted to dishonest gain,

1 Peter 5:2

be shepherds of the flock of God that is among you, not as though you had to but of your own free will, not from the motive of personal profit but freely,

2 Peter 2:14-15

They have eyes full of adultery and insatiable by sin. They practice enticing unsteady souls. They have trained their hearts in greed. They are doomed to a curse!

2 Peter 2:18

For by uttering arrogant nonsense, through base desires of the lower nature, they entice into immorality men who are just escaping from those who live in error,

Jude 1:11

Alas for them, because they have trod the road that Cain did; for gain they have rushed into Balaam's error and have perished in rebellion like that of Korah!

Revelation 18:12-13

cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones, fine linen, silk, and scarlet, all kinds of citron wood, all kinds of goods in ivory and costly woods, bronze, iron, and marble,