¹⁴ For you, brothers, ^(A)became imitators of ^(B)the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For ^(C)you suffered the same things from your own countrymen ^(D)as they did from the Jews,^[a]

⁷ For you yourselves know ^(A)how you ought to imitate us, because ^(B)we were not idle when we were with you,

⁹ It was ^(A)not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves ^(B)an example to imitate.

¹⁶ I urge you, then, ^(A)be imitators of me.