1 Thessalonians 2:9–16

⁹For ye remember, brethren, ^zzour labour and travail: for ^alabouring ^aanight and day, because we would not ^bbe chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. ^10cYe are witnesses, and ^dGod also, ^chow ^eholily and ^ejustly and ^funblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe: ¹¹As ye know how we exhorted and ^gcomforted and charged every one of you, ^has a father doth his children, ¹²ⁱThat ye would walk worthy of God, ^jwho hath called you unto ^khis kingdom and glory. ¹³For this cause also thank we God ^lwithout ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God ^mwhich ye heard of us, ye received it ⁿnot as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. ¹⁴For ye, brethren, ^obecame followers of ^pthe churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ^qye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, ^reven as they have of the Jews: ^15sWho both killed the Lord Jesus, and ^ttheir own prophets, and have ^||persecuted us; and ^uthey please not God, and ^ware contrary to all men: ^16xForbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, ^yto fill up their sins alway: for ^zthe wrath ^ais come upon them ^bto the uttermost.