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But we were lowly among you; and like a nurse, who fondleth her children,

8 so we also fondled [fn] , and were desirous to impart to you, not the gospel of God merely, but also our own soul, because ye were dear to us.

Therefore also we give thanks unceasingly to God, that the word of God which ye received from us, ye did not receive as the word of men, but as being truly the word of God, which worketh efficiently in you and in them that believe.

But we, my brethren, have been bereaved of you for a short time, (in visible presence, not in our hearts,) and have the more exerted ourselves, to behold your faces, with great affection.

And we purposed to come to you, I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered me.

6 But now, since Timothy hath come to us from among you, and hath informed us respecting your faith and your love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us at all times, and that ye desire to see us, even as we [fn] you;

For God did not call you unto impurity, but to sanctification.

He therefore who spurneth, spurneth not man but God, who hath given his Holy Spirit in you.

Ye likewise do so, to all the brethren who are in all Macedonia: but I entreat you, my brethren, to be exuberant:

But concerning the times and seasons, my brethren, ye need not that I write to you:

But ye, my brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Let us not therefore sleep, like others; but let us be vigilant and considerate.

But let us who are children of the day, be wakeful in mind, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and take the helmet of the hope of life.

For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to the acquisition of life, by our Lord Jesus the Messiah:

And beware, lest any of you return evil for evil, but always follow good deeds, towards one another, and towards all men.

But we entreat of you, my brethren, in regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and in respect to our being congregated unto him,

and that they all may be condemned, who believe not the truth, but have pleasure in iniquity.

But we are bound to give thanks to God always, on your account, my brethren beloved of our Lord, that God hath from the beginning chosen you unto life, through sanctification of the Spirit, and through faith in the truth.

Neither did we eat bread gratuitously from any of you; but, with toil and weariness, we labored by night and by day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you.

It was not because we have no authority, but that we might give you an example in ourselves, that ye might imitate us.