9for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;
10ye [are] witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,
11even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,
12for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.
13Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;
14for ye became imitators, brethren, of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because such things ye suffered, even ye, from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews,
15who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men [are] contrary,
