⁴ but as we have been approved by God and entrusted with the good news, that’s how we are telling the world. We aren’t trying to please everybody, but God, the only One who can truly examine our motives. ⁵ As you know, we didn’t sandwich the truth between cunning compliments—we told it straight—and before the eye of God, we never conspired to make a single cent off of you. ⁶ We didn’t come seeking respect from people—not from you or anyone else—although we could have leveraged our position as emissaries^[a] of the Anointed One, the Liberating King.