1 Thessalonians 2:10-14

Anderson(i) 10 You are witnesses, and God also, in how holy and just and blameless a manner we conducted our selves among you that believe, 11 as indeed you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father his children, 12 that you should walk in a manner worthy of God, who has called you to his own kingdom and glory. 13 For this reason, also, we thank God without ceasing; be cause, when you received the word of God, as preached by us, you embraced 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 you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea which are in Christ Jesus; for you, also, have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, that they have suffered from the Jews,