Thomson(i)
3 For our exhortation did not proceed from error, nor from impurity; nor was it with deceit;
4 but as we had been approved by God to be entrusted with the glad tidings, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who trieth our hearts.
5 For never did we at any time use flattering words, as you know; nor a pretext for covetousness, God is witness;
6 nor were we seeking human glory either from you or from others. We might have appeared with weight as Christ's apostles;
7 but we were gentle among you. Our affectionate regard for you being such, as that with which a nursing mother would cherish her own children,
8 we were willing to impart to you not only the glad tidings of God, but even our own lives, because you were dear to us.
9 For you, brethren, remember our labour and our toil: for working day and night that we might not be burthensome to any of you, we proclaimed to you the glad tidings of God.
10 You are witnesses, and God is witness, how holy, how just, how irreproachable our behaviour was to you who believed
11 how, as you know, we [exhorted] every one of you, as a father would his children,