7But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherishes her own children.
8Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
9For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail. Working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.
10You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
11As you know how we exhorted, comforted, and implored everyone of you, as a father does his own children,
12to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.
13For 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.
