11. as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying,
12. to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.
13. And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.
14. For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;
15. who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drave out us, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;