Parallel Verses
Daniel Mace New Testament
we preach the gospel just as God thought fit to intrust it with us, not being studious to please men, but God, who approves our sincerity.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
Holman Bible
Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted
International Standard Version
Rather, because we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, we speak as we do, not trying to please people but God, who tests our motives.
A Conservative Version
but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good-news, thus we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who proves our hearts.
American Standard Version
but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.
Amplified
But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel [that tells the good news of salvation through faith in Christ], so we speak, not as [if we were trying] to please people [to gain power and popularity], but to please God who examines our hearts [expecting our best].
An Understandable Version
Instead, we speak as men approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel. So, we speak, not trying to please people but God, who examines [the motives of] our hearts.
Anderson New Testament
but as God had judged us worthy to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.
Bible in Basic English
But even as the good news was given to us by the approval of God, so we give it out; not as pleasing men, but God by whom our hearts are tested.
Common New Testament
but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please men, but to please God who tests our hearts.
Darby Translation
but even as we have been approved of God to have the glad tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proves our hearts.
Godbey New Testament
but as we were approved of God that the gospel should be intrusted unto us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who is proving our hearts,
Goodspeed New Testament
God has thought us fit to be intrusted with the good news, and so we tell it, making no effort to please men, but to please God, who tests our hearts.
John Wesley New Testament
But as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who trieth our hearts.
Julia Smith Translation
But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts:
King James 2000
But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
Lexham Expanded Bible
but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, thus we speak, not as pleasing people but God, who examines our hearts.
Modern King James verseion
but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
but as we were allowed of God, that the gospel should be committed unto us: even so we speak, not as though we intended to please men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
Moffatt New Testament
no, God has attested our fitness to be entrusted with the gospel, and so we tell the gospel not to satisfy men but to satisfy the God who tests our hearts.
Montgomery New Testament
But as my fitness to be entrusted with the gospel has been tested and approved by God, I so speak, not to please men, but to please God, who is testing my motives.
NET Bible
but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we declare it, not to please people but God, who examines our hearts.
New Heart English Bible
But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
Noyes New Testament
but as we have been regarded by God as worthy to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.
Sawyer New Testament
but as we were judged worthy by God to be intrusted with the gospel so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tries our hearts.
The Emphasized Bible
But, even as we have been approved by God, to be entrusted with the glad-message, so, we speak, - not as, unto men, giving pleasure, but unto God - who proveth our hearts.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
but as we have been approved of God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.
Twentieth Century New Testament
But, having been found worthy by God to be entrusted with the Good News, therefore we tell it; with a view to please, not men, but God who proves our hearts.
Webster
But as we were allowed by God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.
Weymouth New Testament
But as God tested and approved us before entrusting us with His Good News, so in what we say we are seeking not to please men but to please God, who tests and approves our motives.
Williams New Testament
for since we have been so approved by God as to be entrusted with the good news, we are now telling it, not to please men but God, who proves and finds approved our hearts.
World English Bible
But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
Worrell New Testament
but even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, Who proveth our hearts.
Worsley New Testament
but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.
Youngs Literal Translation
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,
Themes
divine Favour » The possession of, characterized as pleasing God » The aim of the true minister
God » The possession of, characterized as pleasing God » The aim of the true minister
God » Pleasing of » The aim of the true minister
Ministers » Should not be » Men-pleasers
Ministers » Entrusted with the gospel
Pleasing God » The aim of the true minister
Simplicity » Should be exhibited » In preaching the gospel
Sincerity » Should characterize » The preaching of the gospel
Stewardship » Truths to be remembered in relation to » Of the gospel
Topics
Interlinear
Kathos
ὡς
Hos
Usage: 417
Dokimazo
theos
θεός
theos
Usage: 1151
Pisteuo
References
Morish
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Thessalonians 2:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul's Approach To Ministry In Thessalonica
3 for our doctrine was free from all imposture, avarice, and fraud. 4 we preach the gospel just as God thought fit to intrust it with us, not being studious to please men, but God, who approves our sincerity. 5 our address to you was without any flattery, as you yourselves can witness, and God is witness that we had no avarice to disguise.
Phrases
Cross References
Galatians 1:10
for do I now act in obedience to men, or to God? or do I seek to please men? if I had hitherto pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.
Galatians 2:7
on the contrary, when they perceived that I had the province of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles, as Peter had that of preaching it to the Jews,
Romans 8:27
and he that penetrates into the heart approves what the spirit desires, because what he demands for the saints is agreeable to the divine will.
Luke 12:42
Jesus answered, if there be a faithful prudent steward, appointed by his master to give his domesticks their stated allowance; happy is such a servant,
Luke 16:11
if therefore your fidelity has not appear'd in the use of these transitory enjoyments, how can you be trusted with what is more lasting?
John 2:24-25
but Jesus did not trust his person with them, because he knew them all.
John 21:17
Jesus said to him the third time, Simon son of Jonas, do you love me? Peter was grieved at his asking him the third time, "do you love me?" and he said to him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you. Jesus said to him, feed my sheep.
1 Corinthians 2:4-5
my discourse, and my preaching did not consist in the persuasive reasonings of human wisdom, but in demonstrating the spiritual meaning of the scriptures:
1 Corinthians 4:1-2
Let men consider us, as the ministers of Christ, who dispense the divine mysteries.
1 Corinthians 7:25
As to the case of celibacy, I have no positive instructions: yet my advice deserves to be regarded, as coming from one the divine favour has distinguished.
1 Corinthians 9:17
now if I do this willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, it is a dispensation of trust which must be discharged.
2 Corinthians 4:2
renouncing all secret dishonesty, and void of all artifice, I deliver the word of God unadulterated, and recommend my self by urging the truth home to every man's conscience, as in the presence of God.
2 Corinthians 5:11
Shall I then, who know this terrible judgment of the Lord, endeavour to appease men? as for God, I am approved by him, and I trust also you are convinced of my being so approved.
2 Corinthians 5:16
Wherefore, henceforth I have no regard to any man for his external appearance: for tho' I formerly look'd for worldly grandeur in the Messiah, yet now I see things in another light.
Ephesians 3:8
upon me, who am the meanest of all christians, is this favour bestowed, that I should proclaim to the Gentiles the undiscoverable advantages by Christ;
Ephesians 6:6
not doing your work meerly out of regard to their presence or their pleasure, but as the servants of Christ, in hearty obedience to the will of God:
Colossians 3:22
servants, be entirely obedient to those, whom the laws have made your masters, and not meerly out of regard to their observation, as designing only to please men, but from a principle of integrity, as fearing God:
1 Timothy 1:11-13
with the salutary doctrine of the gospel of immortality, which the blessed God committed to my trust.
1 Timothy 6:20
O Timothy, keep what is deposited in your care, avoiding the prophane empty declamations and objections of a spurious science, which some have profess'd,
2 Timothy 1:14
that valuable depositum do you preserve by the holy spirit, which resides in us.
2 Timothy 2:2
and what you heard me deliver in the presence of many, intrust to such persons of integrity as are qualified to instruct others
Titus 1:3
and has in due time manifested by the preaching of his word, which is committed to me according to the commandment of God our saviour:
Hebrews 4:13
so that there is not a creature that is concealed from his view: but all is naked and open to the eyes of him of whom we speak. Having then so great a high priest,
Revelation 2:23
I will strike her children dead; and all the churches shall know that I am he who searcheth the reins and the heart: and I will give to every one of you according to your works.