1 Thessalonians 2:5 Cross References - MKJV

⁵ For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor with pretense of covetousness; God is witness.

⁵ He who for a share informs against friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

²¹ I will not now lift up the face of a man, nor eulogize any man, ²² For I do not know how to eulogize; else after a little my Maker would take me away.

² They speak vanity each one with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak. ³ Jehovah shall cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks proud things,

¹⁹ A gossip is a revealer of secrets; so do not mix with him who flatters with his lips.

²⁸ A lying tongue hates those afflicted by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

²³ He who rebukes a man shall afterwards find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue.

¹⁰ who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy falsehood;

¹¹ Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough; and they are shepherds who cannot understand. They all look to their own way, every one for his gain, to his own end.

¹³ For everyone from the least of them even to the greatest of them cuts off a profit; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

¹⁰ Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall inherit them, for everyone from the least even to the greatest cuts off a profit. From the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

⁵ So says Jehovah concerning the prophets who make My people err, who bite with their teeth and cry, Peace! And whoever does not give for their mouth, they even sanctify a war against him.

¹⁰ Who is even among you who will shut the doors, and you not kindle fire on My altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says Jehovah of Hosts. I will not be pleased with an offering from you.

¹⁶ And they sent their disciples out to Him along with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that you are true, and that you teach the way of God in truth. Nor do you care for anyone, for you do not regard the person of men.

¹³ But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.

³³ I have coveted no man's silver or gold or apparel.

⁹ For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you

¹ I tell the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,

¹⁸ For they who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches they deceive the hearts of the simple.

¹⁷ For we are not as many, hawking the Word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.

² But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the Word of God, but by the revelation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

² Make room for us. We wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we overreached no one.

¹⁷ By any whom I have sent to you, did I overreach you by him?

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

¹⁰ You and God are witnesses how holily and justly and blamelessly we were to you who believe,

³ not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,

⁸ Likewise the deacons are to be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of ill gain,

⁷ For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not full of passion, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for ill gain;

² Feed the flock of God among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; nor for base gain, but readily;

³ And through covetousness they will use you for gain with well-turned words; for whom judgment from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not sleep.

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery and never ceasing from sin, alluring unstable souls, having a heart exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children ¹⁵ who have forsaken the right way and have gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

¹⁸ For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they lure through the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lust, the ones who were escaping from those who live in error;

¹¹ Woe to them! For they went the way of Cain, and gave themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.

¹² the cargo of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and every ivory vessel, and every vessel of very precious wood, and of bronze, and of iron, and of marble, ¹³ and cinnamon, and incenses, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.