For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in great fulness of assurance; as ye know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes.

But though we had suffered before, and were infamously treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to preach unto you the gospel of God amidst a great conflict.

but as we have been approved of God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.

For neither at any time used we insinuating language, as ye know, nor a pretext for covetousness; God is witness:

not seeking glory from men, neither from you, nor from others, though we might have been burdensome, as apostles of Christ.

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherisheth her own infants.

as ye know how [we treated] every one of you, as a father doth his children, exhorting you, and admonishing, and conjuring you,

that ye should walk worthy of God, as calling you into his kingdom and glory.

For this cause do we also give thanks to God unceasingly, because when ye received the word reported by us from God, ye received it not as the word of man, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which worketh also effectually in you that believe.

For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus: for ye suffered the same things also yourselves from your own countrymen, as they too have of the Jews;

For when we were with you, we told you before that we were about to suffer tribulation; as also it came to pass, and ye know.

But now when Timothy returned to us from you, and brought us the glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye retain a kind remembrance of us always, earnestly desirous to see us, as we are also to see you:

And the Lord cause you to abound and overflow with love one to another, and towards all men, as we also do to you:

FINALLY, brethren, we beseech you therefore, and conjure you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk, and please God, so ye would abound more and more.

not in the vile passion of lewdness, as the Gentiles which know not God;

that no man transgress against, or act dishonestly to his brother in this matter because the Lord is the avenger of all such things, as we have told you before, and testified.

and that you make it your study to live peaceably, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we have enjoined you;

Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are fallen asleep, that ye be not afflicted, as the rest [of mankind] who have no hope.

for yourselves know precisely that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction rusheth upon them, as travail on a woman 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.

Let us not then sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

Wherefore comfort one another, and edify one another, as also ye do.