1 Thessalonians 2:9–16

⁹For you remember, brethren, our ^qlabor and toil; for laboring night and day, ^rthat we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

^10sYou are witnesses, and God also, ^thow devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you who believe; ¹¹as you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and ³charged every one of you, as a father does his own children, ^12uthat you would walk worthy of God ^vwho calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

Their Conversion

¹³For this reason we also thank God ^wwithout ceasing, because when you ^xreceived the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it ^ynot as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively ^zworks in you who believe. ¹⁴For you, brethren, became imitators ^aof the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For ^byou also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they did from the Judeans, ^15cwho killed both the Lord Jesus and ^dtheir own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God ^eand are ⁴contrary to all men, ^16fforbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, so as always ^gto fill up the measure of their sins; ^hbut wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.