Mace(i)
7 we behav'd to you with a tender regard, even as a mother, who nurses her own children.
8 Our affection therefore to you being so great, we were as ready to give our lives for you, as we were to communicate the divine gospel to you, so much did you engage our love.
9 for you remember, my brethren, our labour and toil: how we worked day and night, that in preaching the gospel of God, we might not be chargeable to any of you.
10 you are witnesses, and God is so too, how holy, how just and irreproachable our behaviour was to you, who believe.
11 you likewise know, that we exhorted and encouraged every one of you, as a father doth his children,