2For you yourselves know, brethren, that our coming to you was not in vain,G1063G846G80G1492G2257G1529G4314G5209G3754G1096G3756G27562but after we had already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the boldness in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much opposition.G235G2532G4310G2532G5195G2531G1492G1722G5375G3955G1722G2257G2316G2980G4314G5209G2098G2316G1722G4183G733For our exhortation does not [come] from error or impurity or by way of deceit;G1063G2257G3874G3756G1537G4106G3761G1537G167G3777G1722G13884but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men but God, who examines our hearts.G235G2531G1381G5259G2316G4100G2098G3779G2980G3756G5613G700G444G235G2316G1381G2257G25885For we never came with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed— God is witness—G1063G3777G4218G1096G2850G1722G3056G2531G1492G3777G1722G4392G4124G2316G31446nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, even though as apostles of Christ we might have asserted our authority.G3777G1537G444G2212G1391G3777G575G5216G3777G575G243G1410G1511G1722G922G5613G652G55477But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing [mother] tenderly cares for her own children.G235G1096G2261G1722G3319G5216G5613G5162G302G2282G1438G50438Having thus a fond affection for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us.G3779G2442G5216G2106G3330G5213G3756G2098G2316G3440G235G2532G1438G5590G1360G1096G27G22549For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, [how] working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.G1063G3421G80G2257G2873G2532G3449G1063G2038G3571G2532G2250G4314G1912G3361G1912G5100G5216G2784G1519G5209G2098G231610You are witnesses, and [so is] God, how devoutly and uprightly and blamelessly we behaved toward you believers;G5210G3144G2532G2316G5613G3743G2532G1346G2532G274G1096G5213G410011just as you know how we [were] exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father [would] his own children,G2509G1492G5613G3870G2532G3888G3140G1538G1520G5209G5216G5613G3962G1438G504312so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.G2532G1519G5209G4043G516G2316G2564G5209G1519G1438G932G2532G139113And for this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received from us the word of God's message, you accepted [it] not [as] the word of men, but [for] what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.G5124G1223G2532G2168G2249G2316G89G3754G3880G3056G2316G189G3844G2257G1209G3756G3056G444G235G2531G2076G230G3056G2316G3739G1754G2532G1722G5213G410014For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they [did] from the Jews,G1063G5210G80G1096G3402G1577G2316G3588G1722G2449G5607G1722G5547G2424G3754G5210G2532G3958G5024G5259G2398G4853G2532G2531G846G5259G245315who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men,G2532G615G2962G2424G2532G2398G4396G2532G1559G2248G2532G700G3361G2316G2532G1727G3956G44416hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.G2967G2248G2980G1484G2443G4982G1519G378G846G266G3842G1161G3709G5348G1909G846G1519G505617But we, brethren, having been bereft of you for a short while— in person, not in spirit— were all the more eager with great desire to see your face.G1161G2249G80G642G575G5216G4314G5610G2540G4383G3756G2588G4704G4056G1492G5216G4383G1722G4183G193918For we wanted to come to you— I, Paul, more than once— and [yet] Satan thwarted us.G1352G2309G2064G4314G5209G3303G1473G3972G2532G530G2532G1364G2532G4567G1465G224819For who is our hope or joy or crown of exultation? Is it not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?G1063G5101G2257G1680G2228G5479G2228G4735G2746G2228G3780G2532G5210G1715G2257G2962G2424G5547G1722G846G395220For you are our glory and joy.G1063G5210G2075G2257G1391G2532G5479
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