1 Thessalonians 2:4

Coverdale Bible (1535)

but as we are alowed of God, that the Gospell shulde be commytted vnto vs to preache, euen so we speake, not as though we wolde please me, but God, which tryeth oure hertes.

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  • Gal 1:10 : 10 Preach I men now or God? Or go I aboute to please men? Yf I shulde yet please men, I were not the seruaunt of Christ.
  • Gal 2:7 : 7 but contrary wyse, whan they sawe that the Gospell ouer the vncircumcision was comytted vnto me, as ye Gospell ouer ye circucision was commytted vnto Peter.
  • Rom 8:27 : 27 Howbeit he yt searcheth the hert, knoweth what the mynde of the sprete is: for he maketh intercession for the sayntes acordinge to the pleasure of God.
  • 1 Cor 4:1-2 : 1 Let euery man this wyse esteme vs, euen for the mynisters of Christ, and stewardes of the secretes of God. 2 Now is there no more requyred of the stewardes, then, that they be founde faithfull.
  • Jer 32:19 : 19 Thou art the greate and mightie God, whose name is the LORDE of hoostes: greate in councell, and infinite in thought: Thine eyes loke vpon all the wayes of mens children, to rewarde euery one after his waye, and acordinge to the frutes of his inuencions:
  • 1 Chr 29:17 : 17 I knowe my God, that thou tryest the hert, and that vnfaynednes is acceptable vnto the: therfore haue I geue all this with an vnfayned hert, eue with a good wyll, and now haue I had ioye to se thy people (which here are present) offre with a fre wyll vnto the.
  • Ps 17:3 : 3 Thou hast proued & visited myne herte in the night season: thou hast tried me in the fyre, & hast founde no wickednes in me: for I vtterly purposed, that my mouth shulde not offende.
  • 1 Cor 9:17 : 17 Yf I do it with a good wyll, I shall haue my rewarde: but yff I do it agaynst my wyll, yet is the office commytted vnto me.
  • Col 3:22 : 22 Ye seruauntes, be obedient vnto youre bodely masters in all thinges, not with eye seruyce as men pleasers, but in synglenes of hert, fearinge God.
  • Titus 1:3 : 3 but at his tyme hath opened his worde thorow preachinge, which is commytted vnto me acordinge to the commaundemet of God oure Sauioure.
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 nether is there eny creature invisible in ye sighte of him. But all thinges are naked & bare vnto ye eyes of hi of who we speake.
  • Rev 2:23 : 23 And I wil kyll her childre with deeth. And all the cogregacios shal knowe, yt I am he which searcheth the reynes and hertes. And I wil geue vnto euery one of you acordynge vnto youre workes.
  • 1 Tim 1:11-13 : 11 acordinge to ye Gospell of ye glory of the blessed God, which (Gospell) is comytted vnto me. 12 And I thanke Christ Iesus or LORDE, which hath made me stroge, for he counted me faithfull, & put me in office, 13 wha before I was a blasphemer, & a persecuter, & a tyraunt: but I optayned mercy, because I dyd it ignorauntly in vnbeleue.
  • 1 Tim 6:20 : 20 O Timothy, kepe that which is committed vnto the, and avoyde vngoostly vayne wordes, and opposicions of science falsly so called,
  • 2 Tim 1:14 : 14 This hye charge kepe thou thorow the holy goost, which dwelleth in vs.
  • 2 Tim 2:2 : 2 And what thinges thou hast herde of me by many witnesses, the same commytte thou vnto faithfull men, which are apte to teach other.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 but cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestye, and walke not in craftines: nether corruppe we the worde of God but open the trueth, and reporte oure selues to euery mans conscyence in the sighte of God.
  • 2 Cor 5:11 : 11 Seynge then that we knowe, how that the LORDE is to be feared, we fare fayre with men, but we are knowne well ynough vnto God: I trust also, that we are knowne in youre consciences.
  • 2 Cor 5:16 : 16 Therfore hence forth knowe we noman after ye flesh: and though we haue knowne Christ also after the flesh, yet knowe we him now so nomore.
  • Eph 3:8 : 8 Vnto me the leest of all sayntes is this grace geuen, that I shulde preach amonge the Heythe ye vnsearcheable riches of Christ,
  • Eph 6:6 : 6 not with seruyce onely in the eye sighte, as men pleasers: but as the seruauntes off Christ, doynge the wyll off God from the hert
  • Ps 44:21 : 21 Yf we had forgotten the name of oure God, & holde vp oure hondes to eny straunge God: Shulde not God fynde it out? for he knoweth the very secretes of the hert.
  • Ps 139:1-2 : 1 O Lorde, thou searchest me out, and knowest me. Thou knowest my downe syttinge & my vprisynge, thou vnderstodest my thoughtes a farre of. 2 Thou art aboute my path & aboute my bedd, & spyest out all my wayes.
  • Prov 17:3 : 3 Like as syluer is tried in the fyre and golde in the fornace, euen so doth the LORDE proue the hertes.
  • Jer 17:10 : 10 Euen I the LORDE ripe out the grounde off the hert, ad search the reynes and rewarde euery ma acordinge to his wayes, and acordinge to the frute off his councels.
  • Ps 7:9 : 9 Oh let the wickednes of the vngodly come to an ende: but manteyne the iust,
  • Num 27:16 : 16 O let the LORDE God of the spretes of all flesh set a ma ouer the congregacion,
  • 1 Kgs 8:39 : 39 Heare thou then in heauen in the seate where thou dwellest, and be mercifull, & se that thou geue euery one acordinge as he hath walked, like as thou knowest his hert (for thou onely knowest the hert of all the children of men)
  • Luke 12:42 : 42 The LORDE sayde: How greate a thinge is a faithfull and wyse stewarde, whom his lorde setteth ouer his houssholde, to geue the their dewtye in due season?
  • Luke 16:11 : 11 Yf ye then haue not bene faithfull in the vnrighteous Mammon, who wyll beleue you in that which is true?
  • John 2:24-25 : 24 But Iesus comytted not himself vnto the, for he knewe the all, 25 & neded not yt eny ma shulde testifye of man, for he knewe well what was in man.
  • John 21:17 : 17 He saide vnto him ye thirde tyme: Symon Iohana, louest thou me? Peter was sory, because he sayde vnto him, louest thou me? And he sayde vnto him: LORDE, thou knowest all thinges, thou knowest, that I loue ye. Iesus sayde vnto him: Fede my shepe.
  • 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 As concernynge virgins, I haue no commaundement of the LORDE, neuertheles I saye my goodmeanynge, as I haue optayned mercy of the LORDE to be faithfull.
  • 1 Cor 2:4-5 : 4 and my worde and my preachinge was not with entysinge wordes of mans wyssdome, but in shewinge of the sprete and of power: 5 that youre faith shulde not stonde in the wyssdome of men, but in the power of God.

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