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;

At Philippi, as you know, we had been ill-treated and insulted, but we took courage and confidence in our God to tell you the gospel of God in spite of all the strain.

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 can testify, and God too, with what pure, upright, and irreproachable motives I dealt with you who believed;

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 indeed, when we were with you, we foretold you that we are about to suffer tribulation; as indeed took place, and you know it.

For this cause, when I too could no longer forbear, I sent in order to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter might have tempted you, and our labor should prove 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.