^{3 Ref} For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

^{4 Ref} 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 tests our hearts.

^{5 Ref} For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),