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.

nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been a charge as Christ's apostles;

And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received the word of the report of God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's word, which also works in you who believe.

who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have driven us out by persecution, and do not please God, and are against all men,

He therefore that in this disregards his brother, disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.