8. Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
9. For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
10. You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
11. As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
12. to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
13. For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
14. For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;
15. who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn’t please God, and are contrary to all men;