For ye yourselves brethren know of our entrance in unto you, how that it was not in vain:

Our exhortation was not to bring you to error, nor yet to uncleanness, neither was it with guile:

Neither was our conversation at any time with flattering words - as ye well know - neither in cloaked covetousness, God is record:

so was our affection toward you. Our good will was to have dealt unto you, not the gospel of God only: but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

For this cause thank we God without ceasing, because that when ye received of us the word, wherewith God was preached, ye received it not as the word of man: but even as it was, indeed, the word of God; which worketh in you that believe.

For verily when I was with you, I told you before that we should suffer tribulation even as it came to pass, and as ye know.