For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.