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.

For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus: for ye suffered the same things also yourselves from your own countrymen, as they too have of the Jews;

For what sufficient thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God,

not in the vile passion of lewdness, as the Gentiles which know not God;

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.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.