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.

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.

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and justly, and faultlessly we conducted ourselves among you that believe:

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 when we were with you, we told you before that we were about to suffer tribulation; as also it came to pass, and ye know.

For this cause also, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your fidelity, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labour should be in vain.

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:

And the Lord cause you to abound and overflow with love one to another, and towards all men, as we also do to you:

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

For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again, so also those that have fallen asleep for Jesus shall God bring with him.

Wherefore comfort one another, and edify one another, as also ye do.

Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.