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For we have not at any time been [among you] with flattering discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for covetousness, God [is] witness;

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.

And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received [the] word of [the] report of God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's word, which also works in you who believe.

For *ye*, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for *ye* also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also *they* of the Jews,

But we, brethren, having been bereaved of you and separated for a little moment in person, not in heart, have used more abundant diligence to see your face with much desire;

For what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? [are] not *ye* also before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

for ye are our glory and joy.

that no one might be moved by these afflictions. (For yourselves know that we are set for this;

for also, when we were with you, we told you beforehand we are about to be in tribulation, even as also it came to pass, and ye know.)

For this reason *I* also, no longer able to refrain myself, sent to know your faith, lest perhaps the tempter had tempted you and our labour should be come to nothing.

for this reason we have been comforted in you, brethren, in all our distress and tribulation, through your faith,

For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on account of you before our God,

For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in [the] Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

For this is [the] will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more,

For if we believe that Jesus has died and has risen again, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

(For this we say to you in [the] word of [the] Lord, that *we*, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in no way to anticipate those who have fallen asleep;