1 Thessalonians 2:5 Cross References - Thomson

⁵ For never did we at any time use flattering words, as you know; nor a pretext for covetousness, God is witness;

⁵ Shall he reckon misfortunes for his portion; and were his eyes melted for his children?

²¹ For I should not be awed by man: nor put to the blush because of a mortal. ²² For I am not apt to admire persons. Will not Worms devour them as well as me.

² They spoke vanities one to another: their lips are deceitful, they spoke with a double heart: ³ May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips; and the tongue which speaketh swelling words;

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²⁸ A lying tongue hateth truth; and a flattering mouth Worketh ruin.

²³ He who reproveth a man's ways shall have more thanks than he who hath a flattering tongue.

¹⁰ who say to the prophets, " Preach not to us, " and to them who see visions, " Speak not to us, nay, speak to us and tell us another error,

¹¹ yet these dogs are of untamed appetite; they can never have enough. They are indeed mischievous, they have no consideration. They all followed their own courses, every one according to his own purpose.

¹³ because from the least of them to the greatest, they have all committed unrighteous deeds; from the priest to the false prophet, they have all practised falsehoods,

¹⁰ I will give their wives to others and their fields to them who will take possession, that they may gather the products thereof, saith the Lord.

⁵ Thus saith the Lord against the prophets who led my people astray, who gnash with their teeth and proclaim peace for them, though it was not put in their mouths; they have raised up war against them.

¹⁰ Since by you the doors will be shut, and a fire will not be kindled on mine altar for nothing, I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord Almighty; nor will I accept a sacrifice at your hands.

¹⁶ So they send to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, We know that thou art true and teachest the way of God truly, and carest for no one. For thou respectest not the persons of men.

¹³ Now alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut up the kingdom of the heavens against men. For you neither enter in yourselves, nor suffer them who are going in, to enter.

³³ I have coveted no man's silver or gold, or raiment.

⁹ For God, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his son, is my witness how incessantly I make mention of you, intreating always in my prayers

¹ I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience, with a holy spirit, bearing joint witness for me

¹⁸ For such men do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. And by their fawning speeches and flattering forms of address, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

¹⁷ For we do not like the many, adulterate the word of God, but as men of sincerity, but as men of God, in the presence of God in Christ we speak.

² but have renounced the secrets of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor dealing deceitfully with the word of God, but by the clear manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

² Receive us cordially. We have injured no one; we have corrupted no one; we have defrauded no one.

¹⁷ Did I take an undue advantage of you by any of them whom I sent to you?

²⁰ Now as to what I write to you, behold, God is witness that I do not lie.

¹⁰ You are witnesses, and God is witness, how holy, how just, how irreproachable our behaviour was to you who believed

³ not addicted to wine, no striker, not attached to sordid gain, but of a gentle disposition, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money,

⁸ Almoners in like manner should be grave, not double tongued, not addicted to much wine, not attached to sordid gain,

⁷ For the overseer ought to be blameless as God's steward, not self willed, not passionate, not addicted to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy of sordid gain;

² Tend the flock of God which is among you, watching over it, not by constraint, but willingly; not with a view to sordid gain, but with a ready mind;

³ Indeed, with insatiable covetousness, they will, with smooth words, make merchandize of you. But the judgment prepared of old for them is not idle, nor is their destruction slumbering.

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery and unceasing sin; ensnaring unstable souls; having a heart practised in greediness; an execrable race; ¹⁵ having forsaken the right road they have gone quite astray, following the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity,

¹⁸ For uttering, with a solemn tone, swelling words of vanity, they by the lusts of the flesh. by acts of lasciviousness, ensnare them who are indeed flying from those conversant in error;

¹¹ Alas for them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and rambled in the error of Balaam's reward and perished in the rebellion of Kore.

¹² the merchandize of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls; and of cotton and purple and silk and scarlet; and every sort of odoriferous wood and the various wares of ivory and of most precious wood and of brass and iron and marble, ¹³ and cinnamon and frankincense and myrrh and incense and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep and horses and chariots and the bodies and souls of men.