1 Thessalonians 2:4-6

New English Translation

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. ⁵ For we never appeared^[a] with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is our witness— ⁶ nor to seek glory from people, either from you or from others,