Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.

But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:

Even as you saw how, like a father with his children, we were teaching and comforting you all, and giving witness,

Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief: