Verse 4
but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,
Referenced Verses
- Gal 1:10 : 10 for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.
- Gal 2:7 : 7 but, on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of the uncircumcision, as Peter with `that' of the circumcision,
- Rom 8:27 : 27 and He who is searching the hearts hath known what `is' the mind of the Spirit, because according to God he doth intercede for saints.
- 1 Cor 4:1-2 : 1 Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God, 2 and as to the rest, it is required in the stewards that one may be found faithful,
- Jer 32:19 : 19 Great in counsel, and mighty in act, in that Thine eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of Adam, to give to each according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
- 1 Chr 29:17 : 17 `And I have known, my God, that Thou art trying the heart, and uprightness dost desire; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these: and now, Thy people who are found here I have seen with joy to offer willingly to Thee.
- Ps 17:3 : 3 Thou hast proved my heart, Thou hast inspected by night, Thou hast tried me, Thou findest nothing; My thoughts pass not over my mouth.
- 1 Cor 9:17 : 17 for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly -- with a stewardship I have been entrusted!
- Col 3:22 : 22 The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;
- Titus 1:3 : 3 (and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,
- Heb 4:13 : 13 and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things `are' naked and open to His eyes -- with whom is our reckoning.
- Rev 2:23 : 23 and her children I will kill in death, and know shall all the assemblies that I am he who is searching reins and hearts; and I will give to you -- to each -- according to your works.
- 1 Tim 1:11-13 : 11 according to the good news of the glory of the blessed God, with which I was entrusted. 12 And I give thanks to him who enabled me -- Christ Jesus our Lord -- that he did reckon me stedfast, having put `me' to the ministration, 13 who before was speaking evil, and persecuting, and insulting, but I found kindness, because, being ignorant, I did `it' in unbelief,
- 1 Tim 6:20 : 20 O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,
- 2 Tim 1:14 : 14 the good thing committed guard thou through the Holy Spirit that is dwelling in us;
- 2 Tim 2:2 : 2 and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;
- 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;
- 2 Cor 5:11 : 11 having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;
- 2 Cor 5:16 : 16 So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;
- Eph 3:8 : 8 to me -- the less than the least of all the saints -- was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news -- the untraceable riches of the Christ,
- Eph 6:6 : 6 not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,
- Ps 44:21 : 21 Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.
- Ps 139:1-2 : 1 To the Overseer. -- A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest. 2 Thou -- Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar.
- Prov 17:3 : 3 A refining pot `is' for silver, and a furnace for gold, And the trier of hearts `is' Jehovah.
- Jer 17:10 : 10 I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.
- Ps 7:9 : 9 Let, I pray Thee be ended the evil of the wicked, And establish Thou the righteous, And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God.
- Num 27:16 : 16 `Jehovah -- God of the spirits of all flesh -- appoint a man over the company,
- 1 Kgs 8:39 : 39 then Thou dost hear in the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast forgiven, and hast done, and hast given to each according to all his ways, whose heart Thou knowest, (for Thou hast known -- Thyself alone -- the heart of all the sons of man),
- Luke 12:42 : 42 And the Lord said, `Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure?
- Luke 16:11 : 11 if, then, in the unrighteous mammon ye became not faithful -- the true who will entrust to you?
- John 2:24-25 : 24 and Jesus himself was not trusting himself to them, because of his knowing all `men', 25 and because he had no need that any should testify concerning man, for he himself was knowing what was in man.
- John 21:17 : 17 He saith to him the third time, `Simon, `son' of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?' Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, `Dost thou dearly love me?' and he said to him, `Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.' Jesus saith to him, `Feed my sheep;
- 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:
- 1 Cor 2:4-5 : 4 and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power -- 5 that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.