1 Thessalonians 2:5

Paul's Approach To Ministry In Thessalonica

⁴ But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts: ⁵ For neither once in word were we flatterers, as ye know, neither in a pretext of covetousness; God the witness: ⁶ Neither seeking glory of men, nor of you, nor of others, being able to be in weight, as the sent of Christ.

Bear Witness

God is Witness

Can Testify

God Is Our Witness

No

Acts 20:33

Silver or gold, or clothing, of none have I eagerly desired.

Romans 1:9

For my witness is God, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, so that continually I make mention of you, always supplicating in my prayers;

2 Peter 2:3

And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not.

Job 17:5

He will commence evils for a position, and the eyes of his sons shall be consumed.

Job 32:21-22

Not now shall I lift up the face of man, and I shall not flatter to man.

Psalm 12:2-3

They will speak vanity each with his neighbor: smooth lips, with a heart and a heart will they speak

Proverbs 20:19

He revealing a secret going about tale-bearing: and thou shalt not intermingle with him embracing his lips.

Proverbs 26:28

A tongue of falsehood will hate its crushing, and a smooth mouth will make an overthrow.

Proverbs 28:23

He reproving a man, afterwards shall find favor more than he smoothing the tongue.

Isaiah 30:10

Who said to the seeing, Ye shall not see, and to the perceiving, Ye shall not perceive for us right things, speak to us smooth things, perceive delusions.

Isaiah 56:11

And dogs hard of soul, they knew not fulness; and they are evil, they know not understanding; they all looked to their way, a man to his plunder from his extremity.

Jeremiah 6:13

For from their little even to their great, every one plundering, plundered; and from the prophet and even to the priest every one did falsehood.

Jeremiah 8:10

For this I will give their wives to others; their fields to those inheriting them: for from small and even to great all plundering a plunder, from the prophet and even to the priest, all did falsehood.

Micah 3:5

Thus said Jehovah for the prophets causing my people to wander, and biting with their teeth, and they called, Peace; and who will not give upon their mouth and they consecrated war against him:

Malachi 1:10

Who also among you and he will shut the doors? and ye shall not make light mine altar gratuitously. Not to me delight in you, said Jehovah of armies, and I will not delight in the gift of your hand.

Matthew 22:16

And they send to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, and care is to thee for none; for thou lookest not to the face of men.

Matthew 23:13

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye lock up the kingdom of the heavens before men: for ye come not in yourselves, neither those coming in, permit ye to come in.

Romans 9:1

I Speak truth in Christ, I lie not, my consciousness bearing witness to me in the Holy Spirit,

Romans 16:18

For such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by specious language and praise completely deceive the hearts of the innocent.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not as the many adulterating the word of God: but as of purity, but as of God, before the face of God speak we in Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:2

But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God.

2 Corinthians 7:2

Receive us; we injured none, we corrupted none, we took advantage of none.

2 Corinthians 12:17

Not any of whom I have sent to you have I by him taken advantage of you.

Galatians 1:20

And what I write to you, behold, before God, that I lie not.

1 Thessalonians 2:10

Ye witnesses, and God, how holily and justly and unblamably we were to you the believing:

1 Timothy 3:3

Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;

1 Timothy 3:8

Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain;

Titus 1:7

For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.

1 Peter 5:2

Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will;

2 Peter 2:14-15

Having eyes full of an adulteress, not ceasing from sin; decoying unstable souls: having a heart exercised with covetousness; children of a curse:

2 Peter 2:18

For speaking excessive things of vanity, they decoy with the eager desires of the flesh, for licentiousness, them having truly escaped from those turned back in error.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them for they went in the way of Cain, and were poured out in the error of Balaam for a reward, and they were destroyed in the controversy of Core.

Revelation 18:12-13

The cargo of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all fir wood, and every ivory vessel, and every vessel of precious wood, and of iron, and brass, and marble,