⁴ but just as we have been approved by God ^(A)to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not ^(B)to please man, but to please God ^(C)who tests our hearts. ^5 (D)For we never came with words of flattery,^[a] as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—^(E)God is witness. ^6 (F)Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, ^(G)though we could have made ^(H)demands as ^(I)apostles of Christ.

¹⁸ The one who speaks on his own authority ^(A)seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.