As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness!
Cross References
Job 16:19Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
Acts 20:33I have not coveted anyone's silver or gold or clothing.
Romans 1:9God, whom I serve with my spirit in preaching the gospel of His Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you
1 Thessalonians 2:10You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous, and blameless our conduct was among you who believed.
2 Peter 2:3In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
Treasury of Scripture
For neither at any time used we flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God is witness:
used.
Job 17:5
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Job 32:21,22
Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man…
Psalm 12:2,3
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak…
a cloke.
Isaiah 56:11
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
Jeremiah 8:10
Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
God.
Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
Romans 9:1
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
Galatians 1:20
Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
