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For the word of the Lord has been sounded forth from you, and its sound has been heard not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place where the tidings of your faith toward God have been spread abroad, so that I have no need to speak of it.

For you yourselves know, brothers, that my visit to you did not fail of its purpose;

for you remember that although I had already borne ill-treatment and insult at Philippi, I took courage in my God to tell you the gospel of God, in the face of much opposition.

For my preaching was not grounded on a delusion, or on impure motives, on in deceit.

For as you well know, I never resorted to flattery, nor to any pretext for enriching myself. God is my witness!

For this reason also I am giving continual thanks to God, because when you heard from me the spoken word of God, you received it not as the word of men, but as the word of God (which in truth it is), who himself is effectually at work in you believe.

For you, brothers, began to follow the example of the churches of God in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus; and you in your turn suffered at the hands of your fellow citizens persecutions like to those which they endured from the Jews??15 The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out??hey are displeasing to God, and are the enemies of all mankind.

But I, my brothers, although torn from you for a short season (in presence, not in heart), made eager efforts to behold you face to face with strong longing.

For even when I was with you I used to tell you beforehand that I was to suffer affliction; and so it proved, as you know.

For now I am really living, if you are standing firm in the Lord.

For what thanksgiving can I render again to God in your behalf, in return for all the joy which you cause me in the presence of my God?

For this I tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are living, who survive unto the coming of the Lord, will in no wise precede those who have fallen asleep.

For those who are sleeping, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night.

He died for us, in order that whether we are keeping vigil in life or sleeping in death we may ever be living together with him.