1 Thessalonians 2:5

Paul's Approach To Ministry In Thessalonica

⁴ but as we were judged worthy by God to be intrusted with the gospel so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tries our hearts. ⁵ For we used at no time a word of flattery, as you know, nor a pretext for covetousness, God is witness, ⁶ neither did we seek glory of men, either of you or of others, when we might have been burdensome as apostles of Christ;

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God is Witness

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Acts 20:33

I have coveted no man's silver or gold or clothing;

Romans 1:9

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how incessantly I make mention of you, always in my prayers

2 Peter 2:3

and with covetousness they will make a gain of you with feigned words, whose judgment a long time lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

Matthew 22:16

And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that you are true, and teach the way of God in truth, and care not for any man; for you regard not the face of men.

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven before men; for you enter not into it, neither do you suffer those entering to go in.

Romans 9:1

I SPEAK the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness with the Holy Spirit,

Romans 16:18

for such serve not our anointed Lord, but themselves, And by kind and complimentary words deceive the minds of the simple.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not as many, who adulterate the word of God, [for gain]; but as of sincerity, but as of God, we speak before God in Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:2

but have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but commending ourselves by the manifestation of the truth to every conscience of men before God.

2 Corinthians 7:2

Receive us; we have injured no one, we have destroyed no one, we have defrauded no one.

2 Corinthians 12:17

Did I make any thing out of you by any of those I sent to you?

Galatians 1:20

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

1 Thessalonians 2:10

You are witnesses, and God, how piously, and righteously, and blamelessly we were with you that believe,

1 Timothy 3:3

not a wine-drinker, not a quarrelsome man, but gentle, not contentious, not avaricious,

1 Timothy 3:8

The deacons in like manner ought to be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not devoted to base gain,

Titus 1:7

For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not contentious, not devoted to base gain,

1 Peter 5:2

feed the flock of God which is among you, not by constraint but willingly, not for base gain but of a ready mind,

2 Peter 2:14-15

having eyes full of an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, cursed children,

2 Peter 2:18

For speaking extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error,

Jude 1:11

Woe to them; for they have gone in the way of Cain, and rushed into the error of Balaam for a reward, and perished in the contradiction of Korah.

Revelation 18:12-13

wares of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls, and linen and purple and silk and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and every implement of ivory and every implement of most precious wood, of brass and iron and marble,