⁹For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God. ¹⁰Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and righteously and blamelessly we have conducted ourselves with you that believe: ¹¹as ye know how, as a father his own children, we used to exhort each one of you, and comfort and testify, ¹²that ye should walk worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory.

¹³And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received the word of the report of God by us, ye accepted, not men’s word, but, even as it is truly, God’s word, which also works in you who believe. ¹⁴For ye, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for ye also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also they of the Jews, ¹⁵who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have driven us out by persecution, and do not please God, and are against all men, ¹⁶forbidding us to speak to the nations that they may be saved, that they may fill up their sins always: but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

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