9. For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for labouring night and day, not to be a burden unto any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.
10. Ye are witnesses, and God also, of how holy and just and irreprehensible our behaviour was among you that believe,
11. as ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father with his children,
12. that ye would walk worthy of God, who has called you unto his kingdom and glory.
13. For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, that having received from us the word to hear from God, ye received it not as the word of men, (but as it is in truth) the word of God, which effectually works in you that believe.
14. For ye, brethren, have been imitators in Christ Jesus of the congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of God which are in Judaea, for ye also have suffered like things of your own nation, even as they have of the Jews,