For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in great fulness of assurance; as ye know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes.

For from you sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only into Macedonia and Achaia, but into every region also your fidelity towards God is gone out, so that we have no need to say any thing.

But though we had suffered before, and were infamously treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to preach unto you the gospel of God amidst a great conflict.

but as we have been approved of God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherisheth her own infants.

So, tenderly affected towards you, we could with pleasure have imparted to you not the gospel of God only, but our own lives also, because ye were beloved by us.

For this cause do we also give thanks to God unceasingly, because when ye received the word reported by us from God, ye received it not as the word of man, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which worketh also effectually in you that believe.

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles, that they might be saved, to fill up the measure of their iniquities always: but wrath is coming upon them to the extremity.

But we, brethren, bereaved of you for a short moment, in person, not in heart, have more abundantly longed to see your face with great desire.

Therefore we wished to have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan prevented us.

But now when Timothy returned to us from you, and brought us the glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye retain a kind remembrance of us always, earnestly desirous to see us, as we are also to see you:

For God hath not called us unto impurity, but unto holiness.

Therefore he that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his Holy Spirit.

And indeed ye practise it towards all the brethren that are throughout Macedonia: but we conjure you, brethren, to abound more and more;

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief.

Let us not then sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

but let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

See that no man return evil for evil to any man; but always pursue that which is good, both towards one another, and towards all men.