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,

For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us: for we did not behave in a disorderly manner among you,

nor did we eat any one's bread for nothing: but worked with labor and toil, night and day, that we might not burden any one of you;

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.