1 Thessalonians 2:3-7

3For our urging is not out of deceit or impure motives or trickery.

4But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we declare it—not pleasing men but rather God, who examines our hearts.

5For as you know and God is witness, we never came with a word of flattery or a motive of greed—

6or seeking glory from people, whether from you or from others,

7even though we could have thrown our weight around as emissaries of Messiah. Rather, we proved to be infants among you. Like a nursing mother cherishes her children,