2 Corinthians 4:2

For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

So then, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we have been made manifest to God; and I hope that we have been made manifest also in your consciences.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and the left,

by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; regarded as deceivers and yet true;

But even if I am unskilled in word, yet I am not so in knowledge; in fact, in every way we have made this evident to you in all things.

so that we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming,

For our exhortation does not come from error or impurity or by way of deceit;