1 Thessalonians 2:10-14

Rotherham(i) 10 Ye, are witnesses––God also, how kindly and righteously and blamelessly, unto you who were believing, we were found to behave; 11 Even as ye know how, unto each one of you, we were as a father unto his own children, consoling you, and soothing, and calling to witness,–– 12 To the end ye might be walking in a manner worthy of God, who is calling you unto his own kingdom and glory,
13 And, for this cause, we, are also giving thanks unto God unceasingly, that, when ye received a spoken word from us––which was God’s, ye welcomed it––not as a human word, but, even as it truly is, a divine word,––which is also inwardly working itself in you who believe. 14 For, ye, became, imitators, brethren, of the assemblies of God which are in Judaea, in Christ Jesus, in that, the same things, ye, also suffered by your own fellow–countrymen, even as, they, also by the Jews: