1. For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it hath not been found vain:
2. but having suffered before, and been shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.
3. For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
4. but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God which proveth our hearts.
5. For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness, God is witness;