And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;

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.

Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us.

you are witnesses, and God is so too, how holy, how just and irreproachable our behaviour was to you, who believe.

And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.

For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same [kind of] persecution from your own countrymen, as they did from the Jews,

for when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were going to be pressed with difficulties, and it took place, as you know.

Because of this, I too, no longer covering over it, sent in order to know your faith, lest somehow he who tempts was tempting you, and our labor became in vain.

that no man go too far and defraud his brother in bargaining, because the Lord is avenger of all such things: as we told you before time, and testified unto you.

but you, my brethren, are too well inform'd to be surpriz'd by that day, as by a thief.

Brothers and sisters, pray for us too.