We were children when we were with you; we were like a mother nursing her children.

That was the kind of affection we had for you, which made us ready to share with you not only God's good news but our own lives too, because you were so dear to us.

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

For our part, brothers, when we were separated from you for a little while??n person, though not in spirit??e were extremely eager and longed intensely to see you.

for when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were going to have trouble, and it came true, as you know.