For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

For our appeal does not rest on a delusion, nor spring from any impure motive; there is no fraud about it.

For as you well know, we never came with words of flattery nor with a pretext for greed—God is our witness—

we never courted you nor any others, from an affectation of human applause. instead of making our apostolical character any ways expensive to you, as we might;

For you remember, believers, our labor and hardship. We worked night and day [practicing our trade] in order not to be a [financial] burden to any of you while we proclaimed the gospel of God to you.

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who have persecuted us, and who please neither God nor any group of people,

So when I could not bear it any longer, I decided to be left behind in Athens alone,

and encourage you not to be led astray, any of you, in all these troubles. You know yourselves that this is what we must expect,

For this cause, I also, no longer concealing my anxiety, sent, that I might get to know your faith, lest by any means he that tempteth, should have tempted you, and, in vain, should have been our toil.

Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face, and make good any deficiency in your faith.

That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

Now concerning love of the brethren you have no need to have any one write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another;

So that your conduct may be seemly toward those that are without, and that you may not need help from any man.

Also we do not want you to have any misunderstanding, brothers, about those who are falling asleep, so as to keep you from grieving over them as others do who have no hope.

For we say this to you by the Lord’s [own] word, that we who are still alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede [into His presence] those [believers] who have fallen asleep [in death].

But as to the times and the moments, there is no need, Brothers, for any one to write to you.

maintain an intire affection for them, upon account of their office, and don't form any brigues against them.

See that not any man repays evil for evil to any man, but always pursue the good, both for each other and for all.