^{3 Ref} for our exhortation `is' not out of deceit, nor out of uncleanness, nor in guile,

^{4 Ref} 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,

^{5 Ref} for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God `is' witness!)