Moffatt(i)
10 You are witnesses, and so is God, to our behaviour among you believers, how pious and upright and blameless it was,
11 how (as you know) we treated each of you as a father treats his children, beseeching you, encouraging you, and charging you
12 to lead a life worthy of the God who called you to his own realm and glory.
13 We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers,
14 for you have started, my brothers, to copy the churches of God in Christ Jesus throughout Judaea; you have suffered from your compatriots just as they have suffered from the Jews,