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.

For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything.

For you yourselves, brothers, are conscious that our coming among you was not without effect:

But after we had first undergone much pain and been cruelly attacked as you saw, at Philippi, by the help of God we gave you the good news without fear, though everything was against us.

But even as the good news was given to us by the approval of God, so we give it out; not as pleasing men, but God by whom our hearts are tested.

You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;

At last our desire to have news of you was so strong that, while we ourselves were waiting at Athens,

And when we were with you, we said to you that trouble was before us; and so it came about, as you see.

For this reason, when I was no longer able to keep quiet, I sent to get news of your faith, fearing that you might be tested by the Evil One and that our work might come to nothing.

Who was put to death for us, so that, awake or sleeping, we may have a part in his life.