1Thessalonians:2:1-16

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* For brothers , you yourselves know our entrance to you , that it has not been without fruit . * But also suffering before and being insulted in Philippi , as you know , we were bold in our God to speak the gospel of God to you in much agony . * For our exhortation was not of error , nor of uncleanness , nor in guile ; * but even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel , so we speak not as pleasing men , but God , who tests our hearts . * For neither were we then found with words of flattery , even as you know , nor with pretense of covetousness (God is witness ), * nor seeking glory from men , neither from you , nor from others , having been able to be so with the weight of glory as apostles of Christ . * But we were gentle in your midst , even as a nurse should warmly cherish her children . * Longing over you in this way , we were pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God , but also our own souls , because you have become beloved to us . * For , brothers , you remember our labor and toil , night and day , working in order not to put a burden on any one of you , we proclaimed to you the gospel of God . * You and God are witnesses how holily and righteously and blamelessly we were to you , those believing ; * even as you know how I was to each one of you , as a father to his children , exhorting and consoling you , * testifying for you to walk worthily of God , He calling you to His kingdom and glory . * And because of this we give thanks to God without ceasing , that having received the Word of hearing from us , you welcomed it as of God , not as a word of men , but as it is , truly the Word of God , which also works in you , the ones believing . * For , brothers , you became imitators of the churches of God being in Judea in Christ Jesus , because you also suffered these things by your own fellow countrymen , as they also by the Jews , * who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets , also driving us out , and not pleasing God , and being contrary to all men , * hindering us from speaking to the nations in order that they be saved , to fill up their sins always . But the wrath has come on them to the uttermost .

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