[a]But as we were [b]allowed of God, that the Gospel should be committed unto us, so we speak, not as they that please men, but God, which [c]approveth our hearts:

Neither yet did we ever use flattering words, as ye know, nor colored covetousness, God is record.

[d]Neither sought we praise of men, neither of you, nor of others, when we might have been [e]chargeable, as the Apostles of Christ.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:4 To approve his conscience to God, being free from all flattery and covetousness.
  2. 1 Thessalonians 2:4 Seeing there is this difference between the judgments of God and the judgments of men, that when men choose, they respect the qualities of those things which stand before them, but God findeth the reason of his counsel only in himself, it followeth, that seeing we are not able to think a good thought, that whomsoever he first chooseth to those holy callings, he maketh them able, and doth not find them able. And therefore in that we are allowed of God, it hangeth upon his mercy.
  3. 1 Thessalonians 2:4 Which liketh and alloweth them.
  4. 1 Thessalonians 2:6 To submit himself even to the basest, to win them, and to eschew all pride.
  5. 1 Thessalonians 2:6 When I might lawfully have lived upon the expenses of the Church.

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