1 Thessalonians 2:3-5

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

³ For our exhortation^[a] is not from^[b] error, nor from impurity^[c], nor in^[d] deceit. ⁴ But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted-with the good-news, so we speak— not as pleasing people, but God, the One testing our hearts. ⁵ For neither did we at-any-time come with a word of flattery, as you know; nor with a pretext for greed— God is witness;