1Thessalonians:2:1-16

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ylt @1Thessalonians:2:1 @For yourselves have known , brethren , our entrance in unto you , that it did not become vain , ylt @1Thessalonians:2:2 @but having both suffered before , and having been injuriously treated (as ye have known ) in Philippi , we were bold in our God to speak unto you the good news of God in much conflict , ylt @1Thessalonians:2:3 @for our exhortation [is ] not out of deceit , nor out of uncleanness , nor in guile , ylt @1Thessalonians:2:4 @but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news , so we speak , not as pleasing men , but God , who is proving our hearts , ylt @1Thessalonians:2:5 @for at no time did we come with speech of flattery , (as ye have known ,) nor in a pretext for covetousness , (God [is ] witness !) ylt @1Thessalonians:2:6 @nor seeking of men glory , neither from you nor from others , being able to be burdensome , as Christ 's apostles . ylt @1Thessalonians:2:7 @But we became gentle in your midst , as a nurse may cherish her own children , ylt @1Thessalonians:2:8 @so being desirous of you , we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God , but also our own souls , because beloved ye have become to us , ylt @1Thessalonians:2:9 @for ye remember , brethren , our labour and travail , for , night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you , we did preach to you the good news of God ; ylt @1Thessalonians:2:10 @ye [are ] witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously , and blamelessly to you who believe we became , ylt @1Thessalonians:2:11 @even as ye have known , how each one of you , as a father his own children , we are exhorting you , and comforting , and testifying , ylt @1Thessalonians:2:12 @for your walking worthily of God , who is calling you to His own reign and glory . ylt @1Thessalonians:2:13 @Because of this also , we -- we do give thanks to God continually , that , having received the word of hearing from us of God , ye accepted , not the word of man , but as it is truly , the word of God , who also doth work in you who believe ; ylt @1Thessalonians:2:14 @for ye became imitators , brethren , of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus , because such things ye suffered , even ye , from your own countrymen , as also they from the Jews , ylt @1Thessalonians:2:15 @who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets , and did persecute us , and God they are not pleasing , and to all men [are ] contrary , ylt @1Thessalonians:2:16 @forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved , to fill up their sins always , but the anger did come upon them -- to the end !

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