1 Thessalonians 2

¹For ye your selues knowe, brethren, that our entrance in vnto you was not in vaine,

²But euen after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated at Philippi, (as ye knowe) we were bolde in our God, to speake vnto you the Gospell of God with much striuing.

³For our exhortation was not by deceite, nor by vncleannes, nor by guile.

⁴But as we were allowed of God, that the Gospel should be committed vnto vs, so we speake, not as they that please men, but God, which approoueth our hearts.

⁵Neither yet did we euer vse flattering wordes, as ye knowe, nor coloured couetousnes, God is recorde.

⁶Neither sought we prayse of men, neither of you, nor of others, when we might haue bene chargeable, as the Apostles of Christ.

⁷But we were gentle among you, euen as a nource cherisheth her children.

⁸Thus being affectioned toward you, our good will was to haue dealt vnto you, not the Gospel of God onely, but also our owne soules, because ye were deare vnto vs.

⁹For ye remember, brethren, our labour and trauaile: for we laboured day and night, because we would not be chargeable vnto any of you, and preached vnto you the Gospel of God.

¹⁰Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and iustly, and vnblameably we behaued our selues among you that beleeue.

¹¹As ye knowe how that we exhorted you, and comforted, and besought euery one of you (as a father his children)

¹²That ye would walke worthy of God, who hath called you vnto his kingdome and glorie.