1 Thessalonians, Chapter 2
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For yourselves, brothers, know our entering in to you+, that it has not been found vain:
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but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you+ know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak to you+ the good news of God in much conflict.
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For our exhortation [is] not of error, nor of impurity, nor in guile:
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but even as we have been approved of God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proves our hearts.
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For neither at any time did we come in words of flattery, as you+ know, nor in a cloak of greed, God is witness;
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nor seeking glory of men, neither from you+ nor from others.
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We could have been a burden as apostles of Christ. But we became juveniles among you+, as when a nurse cherishes her own children:
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even so, being affectionately desirous of you+, we were well pleased to impart to you+, not the good news of God only, but also our own souls, because you+ became very dear to us.
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For you+ remember, brothers, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you+, we preached to you+ the good news of God.
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You+ are witnesses, and God [also], how holily and righteously and unblamably we became toward you+ who believe:
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as you+ know how we [dealt with] each one of you+, as a father with his own children,
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exhorting you+, and encouraging, and testifying, to the end that you+ should walk worthily of God, who calls you+ into his own kingdom and glory.
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And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you+ received from us the word of the message, [even the word] of God, you+ accepted [it] not [as] the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you+ who believe.
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For you+, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus: for you+ also suffered the same things of your+ own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;
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who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and do not please God, and are contrary to all men;
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forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: but the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.
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But we, brothers, being bereaved of you+ for a short season, in presence not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your+ face with great desire:
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because we wanted to come to you+, I Paul once and again; and Satan hindered us.
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For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even you+, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
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For you+ are our glory and our joy.
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