For our good news was not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much complete certainty; as we know what we were among you for your sake.

And ye were imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much pressure, with joy of the Holy Spirit:

So that ye were types to all believing in Macedonia and Achaia.

For neither once in word were we flatterers, as ye know, neither in a pretext of covetousness; God the witness:

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse should cherish her children:

Ye witnesses, and God, how holily and justly and unblamably we were to you the believing:

For ye, brethren, were imitators of the churches of God being in Judea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things by your own race, as they also by the Jews:

And we, brethren, having been separated from you for a due measure of time, in face, not in heart, we were the more excessively zealous to see your face with much eager desire.

Wherefore no more concealing, we were content to be left among the Athenians alone:

For also, when we were with you, we told you before that we were about to be pressed; as also it was, and ye know.

For this, brethren, were we comforted in you in all our pressure, and necessity by your faith: