1 Thessalonians 2:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For our appeal does not spring from deceit or impure motives or trickery,

Cross References

Numbers 16:15

Moses was very angry and said to the Lord, “Pay no attention to their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, and I have not harmed any one of them.”

Acts 13:15

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the officials of the synagogue sent them a message, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, give it.”

Acts 4:36

There was a Levite from Cyprus, Joseph, to whom the apostles gave the name Barnabas (which means “son of encouragement”).

2 Corinthians 11:13

For such boasters are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not peddlers of God’s word like so many, but as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God, we are speaking in Christ before God.

2 Corinthians 4:2

We have renounced the shameful, underhanded ways; we refuse to practice cunning or to falsify God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we commend ourselves to the conscience of everyone in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 4:5

For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’s sake.

2 Corinthians 6:8

in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors and yet are true,

2 Corinthians 7:2

Make room in your hearts for us; we have wronged no one; we have corrupted no one; we have taken advantage of no one.

1 Thessalonians 2:11

As you know, we dealt with each one of you like a father with his children,

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

2 Thessalonians 2:11

For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion, leading them to believe what is false,

2 Peter 1:16

For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of his majesty.

1 Samuel 12:3

Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me, and I will restore it to you.”