for our preaching of the good news did not come to you as mere words but with power and the holy Spirit and full conviction??ou know the kind of life we lived among you for your good.

You will testify, and God will, how pure and upright and irreproachable our relations were with you who believed.

For you, brothers, followed the example of God's churches in Judea that are in union with Christ Jesus, for you in your turn had to bear the same ill-treatment from your neighbors as they did from the Jews,

So when I could not bear it any longer, I made up my mind to stay behind alone at Athens,

That was why, when I could not bear it any longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for I was afraid that the tempter might have tempted you and all our labor might be lost.

as I pray night and day with intense earnestness that I may see your faces and supply what is lacking in your faith?

so that your hearts may be strong and faultlessly pure in the sight of our God and Father, when our Lord Jesus appears with all his saints!

that each of you learn to take a wife for himself from pure and honorable motives,

God has not called us to an unclean life, but to a pure one.

Brothers, pray for us.