1 Thessalonians 2:3-5

The Voice

³ For we haven’t approached you—or anyone else for that matter—with some error or impure motives or deceitful agenda; ⁴ but as we have been approved by God and entrusted with the good news, that’s how we are telling the world. We aren’t trying to please everybody, but God, the only One who can truly examine our motives. ⁵ As you know, we didn’t sandwich the truth between cunning compliments—we told it straight—and before the eye of God, we never conspired to make a single cent off of you.