1 Thessalonians 2:5 Cross References - JuliaSmith

⁵ For neither once in word were we flatterers, as ye know, neither in a pretext of covetousness; God the witness:

⁵ He will commence evils for a position, and the eyes of his sons shall be consumed.

²¹ Not now shall I lift up the face of man, and I shall not flatter to man. ²² For I knew not, shall I flatter; for a little while, he making me will take me away.

² They will speak vanity each with his neighbor: smooth lips, with a heart and a heart will they speak ³ Jehovah will cut off all smooth lips, and the tongue speaking great things:

¹⁹ He revealing a secret going about tale-bearing: and thou shalt not intermingle with him embracing his lips.

²⁸ A tongue of falsehood will hate its crushing, and a smooth mouth will make an overthrow.

²³ He reproving a man, afterwards shall find favor more than he smoothing the tongue.

¹⁰ Who said to the seeing, Ye shall not see, and to the perceiving, Ye shall not perceive for us right things, speak to us smooth things, perceive delusions.

¹¹ And dogs hard of soul, they knew not fulness; and they are evil, they know not understanding; they all looked to their way, a man to his plunder from his extremity.

¹³ For from their little even to their great, every one plundering, plundered; and from the prophet and even to the priest every one did falsehood.

¹⁰ For this I will give their wives to others; their fields to those inheriting them: for from small and even to great all plundering a plunder, from the prophet and even to the priest, all did falsehood.

⁵ Thus said Jehovah for the prophets causing my people to wander, and biting with their teeth, and they called, Peace; and who will not give upon their mouth and they consecrated war against him:

¹⁰ Who also among you and he will shut the doors? and ye shall not make light mine altar gratuitously. Not to me delight in you, said Jehovah of armies, and I will not delight in the gift of your hand.

¹⁶ And they send to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, and care is to thee for none; for thou lookest not to the face of men.

¹³ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye lock up the kingdom of the heavens before men: for ye come not in yourselves, neither those coming in, permit ye to come in.

³³ Silver or gold, or clothing, of none have I eagerly desired.

⁹ For my witness is God, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, so that continually I make mention of you, always supplicating in my prayers;

¹ I Speak truth in Christ, I lie not, my consciousness bearing witness to me in the Holy Spirit,

¹⁸ For such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by specious language and praise completely deceive the hearts of the innocent.

¹⁷ For we are not as the many adulterating the word of God: but as of purity, but as of God, before the face of God speak we in Christ.

² But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God.

² Receive us; we injured none, we corrupted none, we took advantage of none.

¹⁷ Not any of whom I have sent to you have I by him taken advantage of you.

²⁰ And what I write to you, behold, before God, that I lie not.

¹⁰ Ye witnesses, and God, how holily and justly and unblamably we were to you the believing:

³ Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;

⁸ Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain;

⁷ For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.

² Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will;

³ And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not.

¹⁴ Having eyes full of an adulteress, not ceasing from sin; decoying unstable souls: having a heart exercised with covetousness; children of a curse: ¹⁵ Having forsaken the straight way, they were led astray, having followed in the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the reward of injustice;

¹⁸ For speaking excessive things of vanity, they decoy with the eager desires of the flesh, for licentiousness, them having truly escaped from those turned back in error.

¹¹ Woe to them for they went in the way of Cain, and were poured out in the error of Balaam for a reward, and they were destroyed in the controversy of Core.

¹² The cargo of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all fir wood, and every ivory vessel, and every vessel of precious wood, and of iron, and brass, and marble, ¹³ And cinnamon, and perfumes, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and the finest wheat flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies, and of souls of men,