1Thessalonians:2:1-16

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* Yourselves for you know , brethren , the introduction of us that to you , because not in vain it has been ; * but having previously suffered and having been injuriously treated , as you know , in Philippi , we were emboldened by the God of us to speak to you the glad tidings of the God with much striving . * The for exhortation of us not from error , nor from impurity , nor in deceit ; * but as we have been approved by the God to be entrusted with the glad tidings , so we speak , not as men pleasing , but the God that one trying the hearts of us . * Neither for any time with a word of flattery did we come , as you know ; nor with a pretence of covetousness , God a witness ; * nor seeking from men glory , neither from you nor from others ; (being able with a weight to be , as of Anointed apostles ;) * but we were gentle in midst of you . As would cherish a nursing –mother the of herself children , * so , being very desirous of you , we were well –pleased to have imparted to you not only the glad tidings of the God , but also the of yourselves lives , because beloved ones to us you have become . * You remember for , brethren , the labor of us and the toil ; night and day working for the not to burden any one of you , we published to you the glad tidings of the God . * You witnesses and the God , how piously and justly and blamelessly with you the believers we were ; * as also you know , how one each of you , as a father children of himself , exhorting you and consoling , * and testifying in order that to walk you worthily of the God , of the one calling you for the of himself kingdom and glory . * On account of this also we give thanks to the God unceasingly , because receiving a word of hearing from us of the God , you received , not a word of men , but , as it is truly , a word of God , which also inworks in you the believing ones . * You for imitators became , brethren , of the congregations of the God of those being in the Judea in Anointed Jesus , because the things same you suffered also you by the own countrymen , as also they by the Jews ; * of those also the Lord having killed Jesus and the prophets , and us persecuted , and God not pleasing , and to all men contrary ; * forbidding us to the Gentiles to speak that they might be saved , in order that to have filled up of themselves the sins always . Has come but on them the wrath for an end .

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