1 Tesalonicenses 2:3

3 Como ven, no predicamos con engaño ni con intenciones impuras o artimañas.

1 Tesalonicenses 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 Tesalonicenses 2:3 In-Context

1 Pablo recuerda su visita
Ustedes bien saben, amados hermanos, que nuestra visita a ustedes no fue un fracaso.

2 Saben lo mal que nos trataron en Filipos y cuánto sufrimos allí justo antes de verlos a ustedes. Aun así, nuestro Dios nos dio el valor de anunciarles la Buena Noticia con valentía, a pesar de gran oposición.

3 Como ven, no predicamos con engaño ni con intenciones impuras o artimañas.

4 Pues hablamos como mensajeros aprobados por Dios, a quienes se les confió la Buena Noticia. Nuestro propósito es agradar a Dios, no a las personas. Solamente él examina las intenciones de nuestro corazón.

5 Como bien saben, ni una sola vez tratamos de ganarlos adulándolos. ¡Y Dios es nuestro testigo de que nunca aparentamos ser amigos de ustedes con el fin de sacarles dinero!