10. You and God are witnesses of how pure, upright, and blameless we ourselves behaved among you who believe.
11. As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and commanded every one of you, as a father does his own children,
12. that you would walk in a manner worthy of God, who has called you to His kingdom and glory.
13. For this reason we thank God without ceasing because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which effectively works also in you who believe.
14. For you, brothers, became followers of the churches of God, which in Judea are in Christ Jesus. You also have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they have from the Jews,
15. who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and have persecuted us. They do not please God and are contrary to all men,