so that ye were an example to all that believe in Macedonia, and Achaia.

For our exhortation didn’t come from error or impurity or an intent to deceive.

Our affection therefore to you being so great, we were as ready to give our lives for you, as we were to communicate the divine gospel to you, so much did you engage our love.

Even as ye know how, unto each one of you, we were as a father unto his own children, consoling you, and soothing, and calling o witness, -

But ye brethren are not in darkness, that that day should come on you as it were a thief.