(1 Thessalonians 2:4-6): "But just as God has vouchsafed us to entrust us with the gospel, so we speak, pleasing not men, but God, who searches our hearts. For we have never had before you words of caresses, as you know, nor forms of gain: God is witness! We do not seek human glory either from you or from others."

Chapter 3. The commandments of the Lord must be fulfilled with a good conscience and with a good disposition, coming to God and before people. For whoever does not do so is condemned.

(Matthew 23:25-26): "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, while inside they are full of theft and unrighteousness. Blind Pharisee! first cleanse the inside of the cup and the dish, so that their outside will also be clean."

(Romans 12:8): "If you are a giver, give in simplicity."

(Phil. 2:14): "Do all things without murmuring or doubting."

(1 Timothy 1:5): "The purpose of exhortation is love from a pure heart and a good conscience."

(1 Timothy 1:19): "having faith and a good conscience, which some rejected, they were shipwrecked in faith."

Chapter 4. For good faith in small things, a righteous judgment will reward a greater.

(Matthew 25:23): "Well done, good and faithful servant! in a few things you have been faithful, I will set you over many; enter into the joy of your master." And a little lower

(Matthew 25:29): "To him who has it will be given, and it will abound, but from him who does not have it will be taken away even that which he has."