Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we are well known to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.

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2 Corinthians 4:2

But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.

Craftiness » Who does not walk in craftiness

2 Corinthians 4:1-2

Therefore, since we have this ministry, just as God has shown us mercy, we do not become discouraged. But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.

Deceit » Ministers should lay aside

2 Corinthians 4:2

1 Thessalonians 2:3

For the appeal we make does not come from error or impurity or with deceit,

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Dishonesty » Who renounces the hidden things of dishonesty

2 Corinthians 4:1-2

Faithfulness » Exhibited in » Declaring the word of God

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.

2 Corinthians 4:2

Jeremiah 23:28

Let the prophet who has had a dream go ahead and tell his dream. Let the person who has received my message report that message faithfully. What is like straw cannot compare to what is like grain! I, the Lord, affirm it!

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Ministers » Should preach » Without deceitfulness

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For we never appeared with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed -- God is our witness --

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2 Corinthians 4:2

1 Thessalonians 2:3

For the appeal we make does not come from error or impurity or with deceit,

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Ministers » When faithful » Commend themselves to the consciences of men

2 Corinthians 4:2

Ministers » Should not be » Crafty

2 Corinthians 4:2

Scriptures » Wrested

Matthew 4:6

and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written, 'He will command his angels concerning you' and 'with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'"

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2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.

2 Corinthians 4:2

Matthew 22:29

Jesus answered them, "You are deceived, because you don't know the scriptures or the power of God.

2 Peter 3:16

speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.

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The scriptures » Should be » Not handled deceitfully

2 Corinthians 4:2

The word of God » Not to be handled deceitfully

2 Corinthians 4:2

Truth » Ministers should » Approve themselves by

2 Corinthians 6:7

by truthful teaching, by the power of God, with weapons of righteousness both for the right hand and for the left,

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2 Corinthians 4:2

2 Corinthians 7:14

For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has proved true as well.

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