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1 Thessalonians 2:5

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For neither were we using flattering speech, as you know, nor covering up greed, God is our witness.

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And they sent their disciples to Him with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that You are true, and teach the way of God in truth; nor do You show favoritism to anyone.

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

I have desired the silver or gold or clothes of no one.

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers,

For such people do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and through smooth speech and flattering, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience witnessing with me in the Holy Spirit,

Did I take advantage of you by any of those whom I sent to you?

For we are not as the rest, corrupting the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.

but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor falsifying the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience before God.

Receive us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have defrauded no one.

Now, what I write to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.

You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we were to you that believe;

not given to wine, not a bully, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not loving money;

Likewise deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, not being given to much wine, not greedy for money,

For a bishop must be unimpeachable, as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,

shepherd the flock of God among you, overseeing not by compulsion, but rather willingly, not in fondness for dishonest gain, but rather eagerly;

For when they speak haughty words of emptiness, they entice through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, those who are escaping from those who are living in error,

And by covetousness they will exploit you with fabricated words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction will not sleep.

Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and in the error of Balaam they have rushed for profit, and have perished in the rebellion of Korah.




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