1 Thessalonians 2:5

Geneva Bible (1560)

Neither yet did we euer vse flattering wordes, as ye knowe, nor coloured couetousnes, God is recorde.

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  • Acts 20:33 : 33 I haue coueted no mans siluer, nor gold, nor apparell.
  • Rom 1:9 : 9 For God is my witnesse (whom I serue in my spirit in the Gospel of his Sonne) that without ceasing I make mention of you
  • 2 Cor 12:17 : 17 Did I pill you by any of them whom I sent vnto you?
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And through couetousnes shall they with fained words make marchandise of you, whose condemnation long since resteth not, and their destruction slumbreth not.
  • 1 Tim 3:8 : 8 Likewise must Deacons be graue, not double tongued, not giuen vnto much wine, neither to filthy lucre,
  • Titus 1:7 : 7 For a Bishop must bee vnreproueable, as Gods steward, not froward, not angrie, not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthie lucre,
  • 1 Pet 5:2 : 2 Feede the flocke of God, which dependeth vpo you, caring for it not by constraint, but willingly: not for filthy lucre, but of a ready minde:
  • Rev 18:12-13 : 12 The ware of golde, and siluer, and of precious stone, and of pearles, and of fine linnen, and of purple, and of silke, and of skarlet, and of all maner of Thyne wood, and of all vessels of yuorie, and of all vessels of most precious wood, and of brasse, and of yron, and of marble, 13 And of cinamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oyle, and fine floure, and wheate, and beastes, and sheepe, and horses, and charets, and seruants, and soules of men.
  • 2 Pet 2:14-15 : 14 Hauing eyes full of adulterie, and that can not cease to sinne, beguiling vnstable soules: they haue heartes exercised with couetousnesse, they are the children of curse: 15 Which forsaking the right way, haue gone astray, folowing the way of Balaam, the sonne of Bosor, which loued the wages of vnrighteousnes.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For in speaking swelling wordes of vanitie, they beguile with wantonnesse through the lusts of the flesh them that were cleane escaped from them which are wrapped in errour,
  • Gal 1:20 : 20 Nowe the things which I write vnto you, beholde, I witnes before God, that I lie not.
  • 1 Thess 2:10 : 10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and iustly, and vnblameably we behaued our selues among you that beleeue.
  • 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 Not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthy lucre, but gentle, no fighter, not couetous,
  • Rom 9:1 : 1 I say the trueth in Christ, I lye not, my conscience bearing mee witnes in the holy Ghost,
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For they that are such, serue not the Lorde Iesus Christ, but their owne bellies, and with faire speech and flattering deceiue the heartes of the simple.
  • 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 For wee are not as many, which make marchandise of the woorde of God: but as of sinceritie, but as of God in ye sight of God speake we in Christ.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But haue cast from vs ye clokes of shame, and walke not in craftines, neither handle we the worde of God deceitfully: but in declaration of the trueth we approue our selues to euery mans conscience in the sight of God.
  • 2 Cor 7:2 : 2 Receiue vs: we haue done wrong to no man: we haue corrupted no man: we haue defrauded no man.
  • Job 17:5 : 5 For the eyes of his children shall faile, that speaketh flattery to his friends.
  • Job 32:21-22 : 21 I will not now accept the person of man, neyther will I giue titles to man. 22 For I may not giue titles, lest my Maker should take me away suddenly.
  • Ps 12:2-3 : 2 They speake deceitfully euery one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speake with a double heart. 3 The Lorde cut off all flattering lippes, and the tongue that speaketh proude things:
  • Prov 20:19 : 19 He that goeth about as a slanderer, discouereth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
  • Prov 26:28 : 28 A false tongue hateth the afflicted, and a flattering mouth causeth ruine.
  • Prov 28:23 : 23 He that rebuketh a man, shall finde more fauour at length, then he that flattereth with his tongue.
  • Isa 30:10 : 10 Which say vnto the Seers, See not: and to the Prophets, Prophecie not vnto vs right things: but speake flattering things vnto vs: prophecie errours.
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 And these griedy dogs can neuer haue ynough: and these shepheards cannot vnderstand: for they all looke to their owne way, euery one for his aduantage, and for his owne purpose.
  • Jer 6:13 : 13 For from the least of them, euen vnto the greatest of them, euery one is giuen vnto couetousnesse, and from the Prophet euen vnto the Priest, they all deale falsely.
  • Jer 8:10 : 10 Therefore will I giue their wiues vnto others, and their fieldes to them that shall possesse them: for euery one from the least euen vnto the greatest is giuen to couetousnesse, and from the Prophet euen vnto the Priest, euery one dealeth falsely.
  • Mic 3:5 : 5 Thus saith the Lorde, Concerning the prophets that deceiue my people, and bite them with their teeth, and cry peace, but if a man put not into their mouthes, they prepare warre against him,
  • Mal 1:10 : 10 Who is there euen among you, that would shut the doores? and kindle not fire on mine altar in vaine, I haue no pleasure in you, sayeth the Lorde of hostes, neither will I accept an offering at your hande.
  • Matt 22:16 : 16 And they sent vnto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we knowe that thou art true, & teachest the way of God truly, neither carest for any man: for thou considerest not the person of men.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 Wo therefore be vnto you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites, because ye shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men: for ye your selues go not in, neither suffer ye them that would enter, to come in.
  • Jude 1:11 : 11 Wo be vnto them: for they haue followed the way of Cain, and are cast away by the deceit of Balaams wages, and perish in the gainsaying of Core.

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