For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and also in the holy ghost and in much certainty, as ye know after what manner we behaved ourselves among you, for your sakes.

But were tender among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children,

Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, which hath sent his holy spirit among you.

We beseech you brethren, that ye know them which labour among you, and have the oversight of you in the Lord,

See that none recompense evil for evil unto any man: but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.