1Thessalonians:2:1-16

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* For yourselves , brothers , know our entering in to you (note :){+}(:note ), that it has not been found vain : * but having suffered before and been shamefully treated , as you (note :){+}(:note ) know , at Philippi , we waxed bold in our God to speak to you {+} the good news of God in much conflict . * For our exhortation [is ] not of error , nor of impurity , nor in guile : * but even as we have been approved of God to be entrusted with the good news , so we speak ; not as pleasing men , but God who proves our hearts . * For neither at any time did we come in words of flattery , as you (note :){+}(:note ) know , nor in a cloak of greed , God is witness ; * nor seeking glory of men , neither from you (note :){+}(:note ) nor from others . * We could have been a burden as apostles of Christ . But we became juveniles among you (note :){+}(:note ), as when a nurse cherishes her own children : * even so , being affectionately desirous of you (note :){+}(:note ), we were well pleased to impart to you {+}, not the good news of God only , but also our own souls , because you {+} became very dear to us . * For you (note :){+}(:note ) remember , brothers , our labor and travail : working night and day , that we might not burden any of you {+}, we preached to you {+} the good news of God . * You (note :){+}(:note ) are witnesses , and God [also ], how holily and righteously and unblamably we became toward you {+} who believe : * as you (note :){+}(:note ) know how we [dealt with ] each one of you {+}, as a father with his own children , * exhorting you (note :){+}(:note ), and encouraging , and testifying , to the end that you {+} should walk worthily of God , who calls you {+} into his own kingdom and glory . * And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing , that , when you (note :){+}(:note ) received from us the word of the message , [even the word ] of God , you {+} accepted [it ] not [as ] the word of men , but , as it is in truth , the word of God , which also works in you {+} who believe . * For you (note :){+}(:note ), brothers , became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus : for you {+} also suffered the same things of your {+} own countrymen , even as they did of the Jews ; * who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets , and drove out us , and did not please God , and are contrary to all men ; * forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved ; to fill up their sins always : but the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost .

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