| 1 Thessalonians 2:3 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | For our exhortation does not come from error or impurity or by way of deceit; (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | When we encouraged you, we didn't use unethical schemes, corrupt practices, or deception.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: |
| ASV: | For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: |
| BBE: | For our witness does not come from error or from an unclean heart or from deceit: |
| DBY: | For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile; |
| ERV: | For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: |
| WEY: | For our preaching was not grounded on a delusion, nor prompted by mingled motives, nor was there fraud in it. |
| WBS: | For our exhortation was not from deceit, nor from impurity, nor in guile; |
| WEB: | For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception. |
| YLT: | for our exhortation is not out of deceit, nor out of uncleanness, nor in guile, |
| 1 Thessalonians 2:3 Cross References |
| XREF: | Acts 13:15 After the reading of the Law and the Prophets the synagogue officials sent to them, saying, "Brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it."
2 Corinthians 4:2 but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification.
2 Thessalonians 2:11 For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 2:3 {3} For our exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of {b} uncleanness, nor in guile:
(3) To teach pure doctrine faithfully and with a pure heart.
(b) By any wicked and evil type of dealing. |
| PNT: | 2:3 For our exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile. The message they preached did not spring from deceit, or unclean lives, or guile. It was in all sincerity, and hence they were bold (1Th 2:2). |
| WES: | 2:3 For our exhortation - That is, our preaching. A part is put for the whole. Is not, at any time, of deceit - We preach not a lie, but the truth of God. Nor of uncleanness - With any unholy or selfish view. This expression is not always appropriated to lust, although it is sometimes emphatically applied thereto. Nor in guile - But with great plainness of speech. |
| MHC: | 2:1-6 The apostle had no wordly design in his preaching. Suffering in a good cause should sharpen holy resolution. The gospel of Christ at first met with much opposition; and it was preached with contention, with striving in preaching, and against opposition. And as the matter of the apostle's exhortation was true and pure, the manner of his speaking was without guile. The gospel of Christ is designed for mortifying corrupt affections, and that men may be brought under the power of faith. This is the great motive to sincerity, to consider that God not only sees all we do, but knows our thoughts afar off, and searches the heart. And it is from this God who trieth our hearts, that we must receive our reward. The evidences of the apostle's sincerity were, that he avoided flattery and covetousness. He avoided ambition and vain-glory. |
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