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3 For our appeal does not rest on a delusion, nor spring from any impure motive; there is no fraud about it.
4 God has thought us fit to be intrusted with the good news, and so we tell it, making no effort to please men, but to please God, who tests our hearts.
5 We never used flattery, as you know, or found pretexts for making money, as God is our witness.
6 We never sought praise from men, either from you or anyone else, though as Christ's apostles we might have stood on our dignity.
7 We were children when we were with you; we were like a mother nursing her children.
8 That was the kind of affection we had for you, which made us ready to share with you not only God's good news but our own lives too, because you were so dear to us.
9 You remember, brothers, how we toiled and labored. We worked night and day, when we preached the good news to you, in order not to be a burden to any of you.
10 You will testify, and God will, how pure and upright and irreproachable our relations were with you who believed.
11 You know how, like a father with his children, we used to urge, encourage, and implore you