For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in full assurance, as you know what sort of persons we were among you for your sakes.

For you yourselves know, brethren, our entrance among you, that it was not in vain.

But we were gentle among you. As a nurse nourishes her children,

You are witnesses, and God also, in how holy and just and blameless a manner we conducted our selves among you that believe,

Now we beseech you, brethren, to have regard for those who labor among you, and preside over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

and that you esteem them very highly in love on account of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.