1Th 1 Thessalonians, chapter First Epistle to the Thessalonians, chapter 2
For yöu have known, brothers, that our entrance to yöu has not been in vain, but having both suffered before, and having been mistreated (as yöu have known) in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to yöu the good news of God in much conflict, for our exhortation [is] not out of deceit, nor out of uncleanness, nor in guile, but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts, for at no time did we come with speech of flattery (as yöu have known), nor in a pretext for covetousness (God [is] witness), nor seeking glory from men, neither from yöu nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ’s apostles. But we became gentle in yöur midst, as a nurse may nurture her own children, so being desirous of yöu, we are well-pleased to impart to yöu not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because yöu have become beloved to us, for yöu remember, brothers, our labor and travail, for working night and day not to be a burden on any of yöu, we preached the good news of God to yöu; yöu [are] witnesses—God also—how piously and righteously and blamelessly we became to yöu who believe, even as yöu have known how we are exhorting each one of yöu, as a father his own children, and comforting, and testifying, for yöur walking worthily of God, who is calling yöu to His own kingdom and glory. And because of this we also continually give thanks to God, that, having received the word of God [by] yöur hearing from us, yöu accepted, not the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, who also works in yöu who believe; for yöu became imitators, brothers, of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because yöu suffered such things, even yöu, from yöur own countrymen, as they also from the Jews, who put to death both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and persecuted us, and they are not pleasing God, and [are] contrary to all men, forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, so as to always fill up their sins, but [God’s] anger came on them—to the end! And we, brothers, having been taken from yöu for the space of an hour—in presence, not in heart—hurried more abundantly to see yöur face in much desire; for this reason we wished to come to yöu (I, indeed, Paul), both once and again, and Satan hindered us; for what [is] our hope, or joy, or garland of rejoicing? Are not even yöu before our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming? For yöu are our glory and joy.