1 Thessalonians 2:4

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

but as we were alowed of God that the gospell shuld be comitted vnto vs: even so we speake not as though we entended to please men but God which trieth oure hertes.

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  • Gal 1:10 : 10 Preache I mannes doctrine or Godes? Ether go I about to please men? If I stodyed to please men I were not the servaunt of Christ.
  • Gal 2:7 : 7 But contrary wyse when they sawe that the gospell over the vncircumcision was comitted vnto me as the gospell over ye circucision was vnto Peter:
  • Rom 8:27 : 27 And he that searcheth the hertes knoweth what is ye meaninge of the sprite: for he maketh intercession for the sayntes accordinge to ye pleasure of god.
  • 1 Cor 4:1-2 : 1 Let men this wyse esteme vs eve as the ministers of Christ and disposers of ye secretes of God. 2 Furthermore it is requyred of the disposers that they be founde faithfull.
  • 1 Cor 9:17 : 17 If I do it with a good will I have a rewarde. But yf I do it agaynst my will an office is committed vnto me.
  • Col 3:22 : 22 Servauntes be obedient vnto youre bodyly masters in all thynges: not with eye service as men pleasers but in synglenes of herte fearynge god.
  • Titus 1:3 : 3 but hath opened his worde at ye tyme apoynted thorow preachynge which preachynge is committed vnto me by the commaundement of god oure saveoure.
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 nether is there eny creature invisible in the sight of it. For all thynges are naked and bare vnto the eyes of him of who we speake.
  • Rev 2:23 : 23 And I will kyll her children with deeth. And all the congregacions shall knowe that I am he which searcheth ye reynes and hertes. And I will geve vnto evere one of you accordynge vnto youre workes.
  • 1 Tim 1:11-13 : 11 accordinge to the gospell of the glory of the blessed God which gospell is committed vnto me. 12 And I thanke Christ Iesus oure Lorde which hath made me stronge: for he counted me true and put me in office 13 when before I was a blasphemar and a persecuter and a tyraut. But I obtayned mercy because I dyd it ignorautly thorow vnbelefe.
  • 1 Tim 6:20 : 20 O Timothe save that which is geve ye to kepe and avoyde vngostly vanities of voyces and opposicios of sciece falsly so called
  • 2 Tim 1:14 : 14 That good thinge whiche was committed to thy kepynge kepe in ye holy goost which dwelleth in vs.
  • 2 Tim 2:2 : 2 And what thynges thou hast hearde of me many bearynge witnes the same diliver to faythfull men which are apte to teache other
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 but have cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestie and walke not in craftines nether corrupte we the worde of God: but walke in open trueth and reporte oure selves to every mannes conscience in the sight of God.
  • 2 Cor 5:11 : 11 Seynge then that we knowe how the LORde is to be feared we fare fayre with men. For we are knowen wel ynough vnto God. I trust also that we are knowen in youre consciences.
  • 2 Cor 5:16 : 16 Wherfore henceforth knowe we no man after the flesshe. In somoche though we have knowe Christ after the flesshe now hence forthe knowe we hym so no more.
  • Eph 3:8 : 8 Vnto me the lest of all sayntes is this grace geven that I shuld preache amonge the gentyls the unsearchable ryches of Christ
  • Eph 6:6 : 6 not wt service in ye eye sight as men pleasars: but as the servautes of Christ doynge ye will of God fro the herte
  • 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 As concernynge virgins I have no comaundment of the LORde: yet geve I counsell as one that hath obtayned mercye of the LORde to be faythfull.
  • 1 Cor 2:4-5 : 4 And my wordes and my preachinge were not with entysynge wordes of manes wysdome: but in shewinge of ye sprete and of power 5 that youre fayth shuld not stonde in ye wysdome of me but in yt power of God.
  • Num 27:16 : 16 let the Lorde God of the spirites of all flesh sett a man ouer the congregacion
  • Luke 12:42 : 42 And the Lorde sayde: If there be any faith full servaut and wise whom his Lorde shall make ruler over his housholde to geve them their duetie of meate at due season:
  • Luke 16:11 : 11 So then yf ye have not ben faithfull in ye wicked mamon? who will beleve you in that which is true?
  • John 2:24-25 : 24 But Iesus put not him selfe in their hondes because he knewe all men 25 and neded not that eny man shuld testify of man. For he knewe what was in man.
  • John 21:17 : 17 He sayde vnto him ye thyrde tyme: Simon Ioanna lovest thou me? And Peter sorowed because he sayde to him ye thyrde tyme lovest thou me and sayde vnto him: Lorde thou knowest all thinge thou knowest that I love the. Iesus sayde vnto him: fede my shepe.

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