Having so fond an affection for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us.

just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children,

But we, brethren, having been taken away from you for a short while—in person, not in spirit—were all the more eager with great desire to see your face.

For indeed when we were with you, we kept telling you in advance that we were going to suffer affliction; and so it came to pass, as you know.

for this reason, brethren, in all our distress and affliction we were comforted about you through your faith;