For our glad tidings were not with you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what we were among you for your sakes:

but, having suffered before and been insulted, even as ye know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the glad tidings of God with much earnest striving.

but even as we have been approved of God to have the glad tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proves our hearts.

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;

nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been a charge as Christ's apostles;

but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would cherish her own children.

as ye know how, as a father his own children, we used to exhort each one of you, and comfort and testify,

And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received the word of the report of God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's word, which also works in you who believe.

For ye, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for ye also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also they of the Jews,

for also, when we were with you, we told you beforehand we are about to be in tribulation, even as also it came to pass, and ye know.)

But Timotheus having just come to us from you, and brought to us the glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have always good remembrance of us, desiring much to see us, even as we also you;

But you, may the Lord make to exceed and abound in love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also towards you,

For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified.

and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your own hands, even as we charged you,

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope.

for ye know perfectly well yourselves, that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief by night.

When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief:

So then do not let us sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober;

but we being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as helmet the hope of salvation;

Wherefore encourage one another, and build up each one the other, even as also ye do.