because our gospel did not come to you with word only, but also with power and with the Holy Spirit and with much certainty, just as you know what sort of [people] we became among you for your sake.

{For never} did we come with a word of flattery, just as you know, nor with a pretext of greediness (God [is] witness),

For you became imitators, brothers, of the churches of God [which] are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you also suffered the same [things] at the hands of your own people, just as [they] themselves [did] also at the hands of the Jews,

For God did not call us to impurity, but in holiness.

because God did not appoint us for wrath, but for the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,