⁹for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God; ¹⁰ye are witnesses—God also—how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became, ¹¹even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying, ¹²for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.

¹³Because of this also, we—we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe; ¹⁴for ye became imitators, brethren, of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because such things ye suffered, even ye, from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews, ¹⁵who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men are contrary, ¹⁶forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them—to the end!

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