For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the holy Ghost, and in much certainty; as ye know what sort of persons we were among you for your sakes.

For the word of the Lord sounded forth from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia; but also in every place your faith towards God is spread abroad, so that we have no need to say any thing of it.

But though we had suffered before and been injuriously treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we spake boldly in the name of our God to declare unto you the gospel of God with much conflict.

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

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

so we, being affectionately desirous of you, were willing to impart to you, not only the gospel of God, but even our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

For this also we thank God continually, that when ye received the word of God, which ye heard from us, ye received it not as the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the word of God, which also worketh effectually in you that believe.

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, thus going on to fill up their sins perpetually: but wrath is coming upon them to extremity.

But we, brethren, being separated from you for a season, in person not in heart, endeavoured the more earnestly to see you again with much desire.

Wherefore we would have come unto you (even I Paul) once and again; but Satan hindered us.

But now Timothy being come back to us from you, and having brought us good tidings concerning your faith and love, and that ye have always a good remembrance of us, greatly desiring to see us, as we indeed do to see you;

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

He therefore who rejecteth us, rejecteth not man, but God; who hath given us his holy Spirit.

But as to brotherly love, ye need not that I write unto you; for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

And indeed ye do it to all the brethren, that are in all Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound in it more and more:

But I would not have you ignorant, my brethren, concerning those that are fallen asleep, that ye may not be grieved like others who have no hope:

But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need of my writing to you:

But ye, my brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should seize you as a thief:

Therefore let us not sleep like others, but let us watch and be sober:

but let us, who are of the day, be sober; putting on the breast-plate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation.

For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

See that no one render evil for evil to any man; but always pursue that which is good, both to each other and to all men.