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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11For you know how, like a father with his children, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last! |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18because we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, again and again—but Satan hindered us. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20For you are our glory and joy. |
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