For our exhortation was not out from error, nor out from uncleanliness, nor in deceit, but just as we were approved by God to be entrusted the gospel, thus we spoke. Not as pleasers to men, but to God, the One approving our hearts (1 Thessalonians 2:3–4).
Paul’s message was not in error intended to pull them away from the truth; rather, it proclaimed the fulfillment of what God had declared He would accomplish by raising Christ from the dead. Moreover, Paul did not act out of uncleanness to exploit the Thessalonians, for uncleanness is a work of the flesh, in contrast to the holiness to which God has called us (1 Thessalonians 4:7). Entrusted by God with the gospel, Paul simply proclaimed it to them, free from error, uncleanness, and deceit: that Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead on the third day in fulfillment of the Scriptures.