1For you yourselves, brothers, know our entering in to you, that it has not been in vain: 2but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict. 3For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: 4but even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who tests our hearts. 5For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a pretext for covetousness, God is witness; 6nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Messiah. 7But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nursing mother cherishes her own children: 8even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us. 9For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God. 10You are witnesses, and God also, how holily and righteously and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who are believing: 11as you know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying, 12to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory. 13And for this reason we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who are believing. 14For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Messiah Yeshua: for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews; 15who both killed the Lord Yeshua and the prophets, and drove us out, and do not please God, and are contrary to all men; 16forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: but the wrath has come on them to the uttermost. 17But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short time, in presence not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face with great desire: 18because we wanted to come to you, I Paul once and again; and Satan hindered us. 19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? Are not even you, before our Lord Yeshua at his coming? 20For you are our glory and our joy.