1 Thessalonians 2:4

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

but even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak not as pleasing men, but God, the One trying our hearts.

Cross References

Galatians 1:10

For do I now persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a slave of Christ.

Romans 8:27

But the One searching the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because He petitions on behalf of the saints according to God.

Galatians 2:7

but on the contrary, seeing that I have been entrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, even as Peter to the circumcision,

2 Timothy 1:14

Guard the good Deposit given through the Holy Spirit indwelling in us.

Psalm 17:3

You will test my heart; You will visit in the night; You will refine me; You will find nothing; my thoughts do not pass my mouth.

Ephesians 6:6

not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the soul,

Titus 1:3

but revealed in its own times in a proclamation of His Word, with which I was entrusted by the command of our Savior God;

Ephesians 3:8

This grace was given to me, I being less than the least of all the saints, to preach the gospel of the incomprehensable riches of Christ among the nations,

2 Corinthians 4:2

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor corrupting the Word of God, but by the revelation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.

Jeremiah 32:19

He is great in counsel and mighty in work. For Your eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give to each man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

1 Chronicles 29:17

And I know, my God, that You try the heart and are pleased with uprightness; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have offered willingly all these things; and now I have watched with joy Your people who are present here offering willingly to You.

1 Corinthians 9:17

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with a stewardship.

Luke 16:11

Therefore if you were not faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the true to you?

Proverbs 17:3

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Jehovah tries the hearts.

1 Kings 8:39

even You hear in Heaven Your dwelling- place and shall forgive and shall act, and shall give to each man according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You have known, You alone, the heart of all the sons of Adam),

Numbers 27:16

Let Jehovah, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation

Revelation 2:23

And I will kill her children with death; and all the assemblies will know that I am the One searching the kidneys and hearts. And I will give to you, each one, according to your works.

Hebrews 4:13

and there is no creature unrevealed before Him; but all things are naked and having been laid open to His eyes, with whom is our account.

1 Timothy 6:20

O Timothy, guard the Deposit, having turned away from the profane empty babblings and opposing theories of the falsely named knowledge,

Colossians 3:22

Slaves, obey the masters according to flesh in all respects, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

2 Corinthians 5:11

Therefore knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and we have been made known to God; and I also hope to have been known in your consciences.

Jeremiah 17:10

I, Jehovah, search the heart I try the kidneys, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

Psalm 44:21

shall not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.

2 Timothy 2:2

And what things you heard from me through many witnesses, commit these things to faithful men, such as will be competent also to teach others.

2 Corinthians 5:16

So as we now know no one according to flesh, but even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we no longer know Him so.

1 Corinthians 7:25

But about the virgins, I have no command of the Lord. But I give judgment, as having received mercy by the Lord to be faithful.

John 21:17

He says to him a third time, Simon son of Jonah, do you love Me? Peter was grieved that He said to him a third time, Do you love Me? And he said to him, Lord, You perceive all things, You know that I love You! Jesus said to him, Feed My sheep!

Luke 12:42

And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and wise steward whom the lord will appoint over his service, to give the portion of food in season?

Psalm 7:9

I pray, let the evil of the wicked ones come to an end, and You will establish the righteous one, for the righteous God is a trier of hearts and reins.

Psalm 139:23

Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts;

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not as the many, peddling the Word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God. We speak in Christ before God.

1 Peter 4:11

If anyone speaks, let it be as the words of God; if anyone serves, as by strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ; to whom is the glory and the might to the ages of the ages. Amen.

2 Kings 16:16

And Urijah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.