1. For you yourselves know, brothers, that our reception among you was not without effect.
2. Rather, after we had suffered and been insolently treated, as you know, in Philippi, we drew courage through our God to speak to you the gospel of God with much struggle.
3. Our exhortation was not from delusion or impure motives, nor did it work through deception.
4. But as we were judged worthy by God to be entrusted with the gospel, that is how we speak, not as trying to please human beings, but rather God, who judges our hearts.