1 Thessalonians 2:2-12 But though we had suffered before, and were infamously treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to preach unto you the gospel of God amidst a great conflict.

Haweis⁽ⁱ⁾ ² But though we had suffered before, and were infamously treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to preach unto you the gospel of God amidst a great conflict. ³ And our exhortation originated not from delusion, or impurity, or from guile; ⁴ but as we have been approved of God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts. ⁵ For neither at any time used we insinuating language, as ye know, nor a pretext for covetousness; God is witness: ⁶ not seeking glory from men, neither from you, nor from others, though we might have been burdensome, as apostles of Christ. ⁷ But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherisheth her own infants. ⁸ So, tenderly affected towards you, we could with pleasure have imparted to you not the gospel of God only, but our own lives also, because ye were beloved by us. ⁹ For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: for night and day working hard, that we might be no burden to any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. ¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and justly, and faultlessly we conducted ourselves among you that believe: ¹¹ as ye know how [we treated] every one of you, as a father doth his children, exhorting you, and admonishing, and conjuring you, ¹² that ye should walk worthy of God, as calling you into his kingdom and glory.