1 Thessalonians 2:4

Modern King James Version

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

Cross References

1 Kings 8:39

then hear in Heaven Your dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart You know. For You, You only, know the hearts of all the sons of Adam.

2 Kings 16:16

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

1 Chronicles 29:17

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

Psalm 139:23

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

Psalm 17:3

You have proved my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried me, and You will find nothing; my thoughts do not pass beyond my mouth.

Psalm 44:21

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

Psalm 7:9

O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the just. For the righteous God tries the minds and hearts.

Proverbs 17:3

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

Jeremiah 17:10

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

Jeremiah 32:19

great in wisdom and mighty in work; for Your eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.

Numbers 27:16

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

Luke 12:42

And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward whom his lord shall set over his houseservants, to give them their portion of food in season?

Luke 16:11

Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust the true riches to you?

John 21:17

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

Romans 8:27

And He searching the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

1 Corinthians 7:25

But concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord. Yet I give my judgment, as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.

1 Corinthians 9:17

For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I am entrusted with a stewardship.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not as many, hawking the Word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 4:2

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the Word of God, but by the revelation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 5:11

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men. But we are revealed to God, and I trust also that we are revealed in your consciences.

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.

Galatians 1:10

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

Galatians 2:7

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

Ephesians 3:8

This grace is given to me (who am less than the least of all saints) to preach the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ among the nations,

Ephesians 6:6

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

Colossians 3:22

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

1 Timothy 6:20

O Timothy, guard the Deposit, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of falsely-named science,

2 Timothy 1:14

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

2 Timothy 2:2

And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Titus 1:3

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

Hebrews 4:13

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight, but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.

1 Peter 4:11

If anyone speaks, let it be as the words of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as of the ability which God gives, so that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory, and the might forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 2:23

And I will kill her children with death. And all the churches will know that I am He who searches the reins and hearts, and I will give to every one of you according to your works.