For yourselves know, brethren, our entrance unto you that it hath not been vain.
But having suffered before, and been outraged, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.
For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile;
but even as we have been approved of God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God that proveth our hearts.
For neither at any time were we with speech of flattery, as ye know, nor with a cloke of covetousness, God [is] witness;
nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been burdensome as apostles of Christ.
But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children;
so yearning over you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls because ye became beloved by us.
For ye remember, brethren, our labour and our toil; working night and day that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
Ye [are] witnesses, and God, how holily and righteously and blamelessly we behaved ourselves to you that believe;
just as ye know how each one of you as a father his own children, we [were] exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying
that ye should walk worthily of God that calleth you unto his own kingdom and glory.
And for this cause we also thank God unceasingly that, when ye received [the] word of [the] report from us of God, ye accepted not men’s word, but as it is truly God’s word, which also worketh in you that believe.
For ye, brethren, became imitators of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they also of the Jews,
who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and please not God, and [are] contrary to all men,
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins alway; but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
But we, brethren, being bereaved of you for a little season, in person, not in heart, made more exceeding diligence to see your face with much desire.
Wherefore we desired to come unto you, I, Paul, both once and twice, and Satan hindered us.
For what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? [Are] not even ye before our Lord Jesus at His coming?
For ye are our glory and joy.