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Yes, the Lord’s message has echoed out from you, and not only in Macedonia and Achaia; your faith in God has overflowed everywhere,✻ so that we do not need to speak a word; (1 Thessalonians 1, 8)
our friends✻ themselves tell the story of our journey, and how we first came among you. They describe how you have turned away from idolatry to the worship of God, so as to serve a living God, a God who really exists, (1 Thessalonians 1, 9)
Yes, brethren, you yourselves can testify that when we arrived among you, it proved to be no fruitless visit. (1 Thessalonians 2, 1)
We had been ill treated and insulted, as you know, at Philippi, but our God gave us courage to preach the divine gospel to you with great earnestness.✻ (1 Thessalonians 2, 2)
We have passed God’s scrutiny, and he has seen fit to entrust us with the work of preaching; when we speak, it is with this in view; we would earn God’s good opinion, not man’s, since it is God who scrutinizes our hearts. (1 Thessalonians 2, 4)
although, as apostles of Christ, we might have made heavy demands on you. No, you found us innocent as babes in your company; no nursing mother ever cherished her children more;✻ (1 Thessalonians 2, 7)
in our great longing for you, we desired nothing better than to offer you our own lives, as well as God’s gospel, so greatly had we learned to love you. (1 Thessalonians 2, 8)
Brethren, you can remember how we toiled and laboured, all the time we were preaching God’s gospel to you, working day and night so as not to burden you with expense. (1 Thessalonians 2, 9)
it is within your knowledge that we treated every one of you as a father treats his children, encouraging you, comforting you, (1 Thessalonians 2, 11)
This is why we give thanks to God unceasingly that, when we delivered the divine message to you, you recognized it for what it is, God’s message, not man’s; it is God, after all, who manifests his power in you that have learned to believe. (1 Thessalonians 2, 13)
You took for your model, brethren, the churches of God which are assembled in Judaea in the name of Christ Jesus. You were treated by your own fellow countrymen as those churches were treated by the Jews, (1 Thessalonians 2, 14)
when they try to hinder us from preaching salvation to the Gentiles. They must always be filling up the measure of their sins, and now it is God’s final vengeance that has fallen upon them. (1 Thessalonians 2, 16)
