1 Thessaloniciens 2:3

3 Car notre prédication ne repose ni sur l'erreur, ni sur des motifs impurs, ni sur la fraude;

1 Thessaloniciens 2:3 Meaning and Commentary

1 Thessalonians 2:3

For our exhortation
Or "consolation"; for the ministry of the Gospel, which is here meant, consists of doctrines full of comfort to distressed minds, such as free justification by the righteousness of Christ, full pardon by his blood, and complete satisfaction by his sacrifice; as well as of exhortations to the exercise of grace and discharge of duty: and this was

not of deceit;
or "error", was not "fallacious", as the Ethiopic version renders it; it consisted of nothing but truth, it was the word of truth, and the truth as it is in Jesus; nor did it proceed from any intention to deceive and impose on persons; it was no imposture:

nor of uncleanness;
it did not spring from any impure affection for any sin, for popular applause, or worldly interest; nor did the ministers of it connive at uncleanness in others, or practise it themselves, as did the false teachers; but bore their testimony against it, both by word and example, and taught no doctrine that encouraged to it; but, on the contrary, the doctrine which is according to godliness, and which teaches men to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts:

nor in guile;
as there was no deceitful design in the ministry of the word, nor anything impure and immoral in the matter of it; so there was no artifice used in the dispensing of it; it was plain and simple, without any colour and guile, without the hidden things of dishonesty, without craftiness and handling the word deceitfully; and this is a reason why the apostles preached it with so much freedom and boldness, because there was nothing false, impure, or artful in it.

1 Thessaloniciens 2:3 In-Context

1 Vous savez vous-mêmes, frères, que notre arrivée chez vous n'a pas été sans résultat.

2 Après avoir souffert et reçu des outrages à Philippes, comme vous le savez, nous prîmes de l'assurance en notre Dieu, pour vous annoncer l'Evangile de Dieu, au milieu de bien des combats.

3 Car notre prédication ne repose ni sur l'erreur, ni sur des motifs impurs, ni sur la fraude;

4 mais, selon que Dieu nous a jugés dignes de nous confier l'Evangile, ainsi nous parlons, non comme pour plaire à des hommes, mais pour plaire à Dieu, qui sonde nos coeurs.

5 Jamais, en effet, nous n'avons usé de paroles flatteuses, comme vous le savez; jamais nous n'avons eu la cupidité pour mobile, Dieu en est témoin.