Murdock(i)
1 And ye yourselves, my brethren, know our entrance among you, that it was not in vain:
2 but we first suffered and were treated with indignity, as ye know, at Philippi; and then, in a great agony, with confidence in our God, we addressed to you the gospel of the Messiah.
3 For our exhortation proceeded not from deceit, nor from impurity, nor in guile:
4 but as we had been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who searcheth our hearts.
5 For at no time have we used flattering speech; as ye know; nor a cloak of cupidity, God is witness.
6 Neither have we sought glory from men, either from you or from others, when we might have been chargeable as legates of the Messiah.
7 But we were lowly among you; and like a nurse, who fondleth her children,
8 so we also fondled you, and were desirous to impart to you, not the gospel of God merely, but also our own soul, because ye were dear to us.
9 For ye recollect, brethren, that we labored and toiled, working with our own hands, by night and by day, that we might not be chargeable to any one of you.
10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how we preached to you the gospel of God, purely, and uprightly, and were blameless towards all them that believe: