For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in full assurance, as you know what sort of persons we were among you for your sakes.

so that you were examples to all that believe, in Macedonia and Achaia.

But having suffered before, and having been outraged, as you know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in the midst of great peril.

But we were gentle among you. As a nurse nourishes her children,

so, having a strong affection for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but our own lives also, because you had become dear to us.

for even when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were about to be afflicted, as it also came to pass, and as you know.