2 Corinthians 2:17

New English Translation

For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.

Cross References

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy lies. The priests exercise power by their own authority. And my people love to have it this way. But they will not be able to help you when the time of judgment comes!

Matthew 24:24

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

Acts 20:20

You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Acts 20:27

For I did not hold back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.

1 Corinthians 5:8

So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God – not by human wisdom but by the grace of God – we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

2 Corinthians 1:18

But as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”

2 Corinthians 11:11

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

2 Corinthians 12:19

Have you been thinking all this time that we have been defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and everything we do, dear friends, is to build you up.

2 Corinthians 4:2

But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.

2 Corinthians 6:7

by truthful teaching, by the power of God, with weapons of righteousness both for the right hand and for the left,

Galatians 1:6

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel –

1 Thessalonians 2:4

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we declare it, not to please people but God, who examines our hearts.

Titus 1:11

who must be silenced because they mislead whole families by teaching for dishonest gain what ought not to be taught.

Hebrews 11:27

By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.

1 Peter 4:11

Whoever speaks, let it be with God’s words. Whoever serves, do so with the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

1 John 4:1

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Jude 1:4

For certain men have secretly slipped in among you – men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe – ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Revelation 12:9

So that huge dragon – the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world – was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.

Revelation 19:20

Now the beast was seized, and along with him the false prophet who had performed the signs on his behalf – signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.

Revelation 2:20

But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and by her teaching deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.