1 Thessalonians 2:3-11 For our exhortation was not of deceit, neither of vncleannes, neither in guile

Bishops⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ For our exhortation was not of deceit, neither of vncleannes, neither in guile ⁴ But as it were alowed of God, to be put in credite with the Gospell: euen so we speake, not as pleasyng men, but God, which tryeth our heartes ⁵ For neither at any tyme vsed we flatteryng wordes, as ye knowe, neither cloke of couetousnes, God [is] recorde ⁶ Neither sought we prayse of men, neither of you, nor yet of others ⁷ When we myght haue ben in auctoritie, as the Apostles of Christe, but we were tender among you, euen as a nource cherissheth her chyldren ⁸ So, beyng tenderly affected towarde you, our good wyll was to haue dealt vnto you, not the Gospell of God only: but also our owne soules, because ye were deare vnto vs ⁹ For ye remember brethren, our labour and trauayle. For we labouryng nyght & day, because we woulde not be chargeable vnto any of you, preached vnto you the Gospell of God ¹⁰ Ye [are] witnesses, & God [also] howe holyly, and iustly, and vnblameably, we behaued our selues among you that beleue ¹¹ As ye knowe, howe that as a father his chyldren, so we haue exhorted, comforted, and besought euery one of you