¹ For ye know yourselves, brethren, our entering in which [we had] to you, that it has not been in vain;

² but, having suffered before and been insulted, even as ye know, in Philippi, we were bold in our¹ God to speak unto you the glad tidings of² God with much earnest striving.

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³ For our exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile;

⁴ but even as we have been approved of¹ God to have the glad tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but² God, who proves our hearts.

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⁵ For we have not at any time been [among you] with flattering discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for covetousness,¹God [is] witness;

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⁶ nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been a charge as Christ's apostles;

⁷ but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would cherish her own children.

⁸ Thus, yearning over you, we had found our delight in having imparted to you not only the glad tidings of¹ God, but our own lives also, because ye had become beloved of us.

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⁹ For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of¹ God.

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¹⁰ Ye [are] witnesses, and¹ God, how piously and righteously and blamelessly we have conducted ourselves with you that believe:

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¹¹ as ye know how, as a father his own children, we used to exhort each one of you, and comfort and testify,

¹² that ye should walk worthy of¹ God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory.

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¹³ And for this cause we also give thanks to¹ God unceasingly that, having received [the] word of [the] report of² God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly,³God's word, which also works in you who believe.

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¹⁴ For ye, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies of¹ God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for ye also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also they of the Jews,

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¹⁵ who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have driven us out by persecution, and do not please¹ God, and [are] against all men,

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¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the nations that they may be saved, that they may fill up their sins always: but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

¹⁷ But we, brethren, having been bereaved of you and separated for a little moment in person, not in heart, have used more abundant diligence to see your face with much desire;

¹⁸ wherefore we have desired to come to you, even I Paul, both once and twice, and Satan has hindered us.

¹⁹ For what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? [are] not ye also before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

²⁰ for ye are our glory and joy.