and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

For they themselves declare concerning us what kind of entrance we had among you, and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God;

And awaiting his Son out of the heavens - whom he raised from among the dead, - Jesus: Who is to rescue us out of the anger that is coming.

For ye yourselves, brethren, know our entrance among you, that it was not in vain.

But also having suffered before, and having been injured, as ye know, among the Philippians, we acted freely in our God to speak to you the good news of God with much contest.

For we have not at any time been among you with flattering discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for covetousness, God is witness;

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

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for working night and day, that we might not be burthensome to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

exhorting and imploring and adjuring each one among you to lead a life worthy of the God who called you into his own kingdom and glory.

And so we too constantly thank God that when you received God's message that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human message, but as it truly is, God's message, which is at work among you who believe.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? are not ye also among others in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

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

For this reason, when I could no longer endure the suspense, I sent someone to find out about your faith [how you were holding up under pressure], for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our work [among you] would prove to be ineffective.

that each man among you should learn to take his own wife out of pure and honorable motives,

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, which hath sent his holy spirit among you.

But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

and to respect and honor them in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

See that none recompense evil for evil unto any man: but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.