⁹ For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

¹⁰ You are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and justly, and without blame, we have been to you that have believed:

¹¹ As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you, (as a father doth his children,)

¹² We testified to every one of you, that you would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

¹³ Therefore, we also give thanks to God without ceasing: because, that when you had received of us the word of the hearing of God, you received it not as the word of men, but (as it is indeed) the word of God, who worketh in you that have believed.

¹⁴ For you, brethren, are become followers of the churches of God which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered the same things from your own coutrymen, even as they have from the Jews,