1 Thessalonians 2:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

1 Thessalonians 2:3 —

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2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:2
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
1 Thessalonians 2:5-6
For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: …
2 Corinthians 12:16-18
But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

Here we have an account of Paul’s manner of preaching, and his comfortable reflection upon his entrance in among the Thessalonians. As he had the testimony of his own conscience witnessing to his integrity, so he could appeal to the Thessalonians how faithful he, and Silas, and Timotheus, his helpers in the work of the Lord, had discharged their office: You yourselves, brethren, know our entrance…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. For--The ground of his “boldness” (1Th 2:2), his freedom from all “deceit, uncleanness, and guile”; guile, before God, deceit (Greek, “imposture”), towards men (compare 2Co 1:12; 2:17; Ep 4:14); uncleanness, in relation to one’s self (impure motives of carnal self-gratification in gain, 1Th 2:5), or lust; such as actuated false teachers of the Gentiles (Php 1:16; 2Pe 2:10, 14; Jude 8; Re 2:14,…