17 For if I do this voluntarily, I have a (A)reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a (B)commission nonetheless.

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17 If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward;(A) if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging the trust committed to me.(B)

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(A)but just as we have been approved by God to be (B)entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, (C)not intending to please people, but to please God, who [a](D)examines our hearts.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:4 Or approves

On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel.(A) We are not trying to please people(B) but God, who tests our hearts.(C)

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11 according to (A)the glorious gospel of (B)the blessed God, with which I have been (C)entrusted.

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11 that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.(A)

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