⁹For you remember, brothers, ^bour labor and toil: we ^cworked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. ¹⁰You are witnesses, and ^dGod also, ^ehow holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers. ¹¹For you know how, ^flike a father with his children, ¹²we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and ^gcharged ^hyou to walk in a manner worthy of God, ⁱwho calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

¹³And ^jwe also thank God constantly⁴ for this, that when you received ^kthe word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it ^lnot as the word of men⁵ but as what it really is, the word of God, ^mwhich is at work in you believers. ¹⁴For you, brothers, ⁿbecame imitators of ^othe churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For ^pyou suffered the same things from your own countrymen ^qas they did from the Jews,⁶ ¹⁵^rwho killed both the Lord Jesus and ^sthe prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and ^toppose all mankind ¹⁶^uby hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always ^vto fill up the measure of their sins. But ^wwrath has come upon them at last!⁷

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Footnotes

4Or without ceasing
5The Greek word anthropoi can refer to both men and women
6The Greek word Ioudaioi can refer to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, who opposed the Christian faith in that time
7Or completely, or forever

Cross references

b 2 Thess. 3:8; [Phil. 4:16]
cSee Acts 18:3
dver. 5
eSee ch. 1:5
f[ver. 7]; See 1 Cor. 4:14
g Eph. 4:17
hSee Eph. 4:1
ich. 5:24; 2 Thess. 2:14; 1 Pet. 5:10; See Rom. 8:28
jSee ch. 1:2, 3
k[Rom. 10:17]
l[Gal. 4:14]; See Matt. 10:20
m Heb. 4:12
nSee ch. 1:6
oSee 1 Cor. 7:17
pch. 3:4; Acts 17:5; 2 Thess. 1:4, 5
q[Heb. 10:33, 34]
rSee Luke 24:20
s Jer. 2:30; Matt. 23:29–34; See Matt. 5:12
t[Esth. 3:8]
u Acts 13:45, 50; 14:2, 19; 17:5, 13; 18:12; 22:21, 22
vSee Gen. 15:16
wSee ch. 1:10