CLV(i)
3 unintermittingly remembering your work of faith and toil of love and endurance of expectation of our Lord Jesus Christ, in front of our God and Father,
4 having perceived, brethren beloved by God, your choice,
5 for the evangel of our God did not come to you in word only, but in power also, and in holy spirit and much assurance, according as you are aware. Such we became among you, because of you."
6 And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in much affliction with joy of holy spirit,