1 Thessalonians 2:3-5

3For aour appeal does not spring from berror or cimpurity or dany attempt to deceive, 4but just as we have been approved by God eto be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not fto please man, but to please God gwho tests our hearts. 5 hFor we never came with words of flattery,
Or  with a flattering speech
as you know, nor with a pretext for greedjGod is witness.
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