The Good News that we brought you did not come to you in words only, but also with power and with the Holy Spirit and with much certainty, for you know the sort of men we became among you, as examples for your sakes.

But as God tested and approved us before entrusting us with His Good News, so in what we say we are seeking not to please men but to please God, who tests and approves our motives.

nor did we seek glory either from you or from any other mere men, although we might have stood on our dignity as Christ's Apostles.

And for this further reason we render unceasing thanks to God, that when you received God's Message from our lips, it was as no mere message from men that you embraced it, but as--what it really is--God's Message, which also does its work in the hearts of you who believe.

and as for you, may the Lord teach you to love one another and all men, with a growing and a glowing love, resembling our love for you.

that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife who shall be his own in purity and honour;

Therefore a defiant spirit in such a case provokes not man but God, who puts His Holy Spirit into your hearts.