We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

and with all the deception of wickedness for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to make ourselves an example for you to follow.