rkjnt - 1Thessalonians:2:3-12

rkjnt@1Thessalonians:2:3 @ For our exhortation does not spring from error, or impurity, or guile:

rkjnt@1Thessalonians:2:4 @ But just as we were approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

rkjnt@1Thessalonians:2:5 @ For at no time did we use either flattering words, as you know, or a cloak for greed; as God is witness:

rkjnt@1Thessalonians:2:6 @ Nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, when we might have asserted our authority, as the apostles of Christ.

rkjnt@1Thessalonians:2:7 @ But we were gentle among you, as a nursing mother cherishes her children:

rkjnt@1Thessalonians:2:8 @ So having a yearning affection for you, we were willing to impart to you, not only the gospel of God, but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.

rkjnt@1Thessalonians:2:9 @ For you remember, brethren, our toil and hardship: we laboured night and day, because we did not want to burden any of you as we preached to you the gospel of God.

rkjnt@1Thessalonians:2:10 @ You are witnesses, and so is God, how holy and just and blameless was our behaviour toward you who believe:

rkjnt@1Thessalonians:2:11 @ Just as you know how we exhorted and comforted and implored every one of you, as a father does his children,

rkjnt@1Thessalonians:2:12 @ That you would walk in a manner worthy of God, who has called you into his kingdom and glory.