CAB(i)
3 For our exhortation was not from error nor from uncleanness, nor in trickery,
4 but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who is testing our hearts.
5 For neither were we using flattering speech, as you know, nor covering up greed, God is our witness.
6 Nor seeking glory from men, neither from you, nor from others, even though we were able to carry weight as apostles of Christ.
7 But we proved to be gentle in your midst, as a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
8 In this way longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.
9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil; for laboring night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
10 You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we were to you that believe;
11 as indeed you know how each one of you, as a father to his own children, we exhorted, and comforted you, and imploring you,