For our good news was not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much complete certainty; as we know what we were among you for your sake.

But also having suffered before, and having been injured, as ye know, among the Philippians, we acted freely in our God to speak to you the good news of God with much contest.

Wherefore no more concealing, we were content to be left among the Athenians alone:

And we ask you, brethren, to know those being fatigued among you, and set over you in the Lord, and reminding you;