1 Thessalonians 2:2-4

Revised Geneva Translation

² But even after we had suffered before (and were insulted at Philippi, as you know) we were emboldened by God to speak the Gospel of God to you with much struggle.

³ For our encouragement was not in error, nor of impurity, nor by deceit.

⁴ But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak - not as those who please man, but God, Who examines our hearts.