We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all toward each other abounds:

when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all those who believe, and in you also, because our testimony among you was believed.

and with all the delusion of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, in order that they might be saved.

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God did, from the beginning, choose you to salvation, by sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth,

this we did, not because we have not authority, but that we might give ourselves to you as an example, in order that you might imitate us.