For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the holy Ghost, and in much certainty; as ye know what sort of persons we were among you for your sakes.

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

so we, being affectionately desirous of you, were willing to impart to you, not only the gospel of God, but even our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

Wherefore being able to contain no longer, we were content to be left alone at Athens,

For when we were with you, we told you before that we should be afflicted, as it came to pass, and ye know.

by this we were comforted in you, my brethren, under all our affliction and distress, because of your faith: