For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain: 2Th 3:11Co 15:21Co 15:581Th 2:13Hab 2:13Php 2:161Co 15:101Th 1:3-10 But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention. Act 16:22-24Act 4:132Ti 1:12Act 17:2-91Pe 2:14-16Act 16:37Heb 12:2-31Th 1:5 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: 2Co 2:172Co 4:21Th 4:71Th 2:5-62Co 12:16-182Co 7:21Sa 12:32Co 4:5 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. Gal 1:10Rom 8:27Gal 2:72Ti 1:14Psa 17:32Co 4:2Eph 6:61Ch 29:17 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: Rom 1:92Co 12:17Act 20:33Gal 1:202Pe 2:31Pe 5:21Th 2:102Co 7:2 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. Gal 1:10Jhn 5:44Jhn 5:411Th 2:9Phm 1:8-92Co 10:1-22Co 13:10Gal 5:26 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: Isa 66:132Ti 2:24-251Th 2:11Isa 49:232Co 10:1Gal 5:22-23Jas 3:171Co 9:22 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. 1Jn 3:162Co 12:15Php 2:17Rom 1:11-122Co 6:1Gal 4:19Heb 13:17Php 4:1 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. 2Th 3:7-92Co 11:9Act 18:32Co 12:13-141Co 9:151Co 9:181Co 9:6-71Th 2:6 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe: 1Pe 5:31Th 1:52Co 1:12Tit 2:7-82Ti 3:10Act 20:181Sa 12:3-51Th 2:5 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, 1Co 4:14-15Heb 13:221Ti 5:212Th 3:122Ti 4:1-21Ch 28:201Th 2:71Th 5:11 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. 1Jn 2:6Eph 4:11Jn 1:6-72Th 2:13-141Th 4:121Pe 5:101Th 5:242Th 1:11-12
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. Heb 4:12Rom 10:171Pe 1:231Pe 1:251Pe 2:2Luk 11:28Act 13:481Jn 3:3 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: 1Th 3:4Heb 10:33-34Heb 5:7-82Th 1:42Co 8:1-2Gal 1:221Co 7:171Th 1:6 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: Mat 5:12Act 7:52Luk 11:48-53Act 2:23Luk 13:33-34Act 3:15Luk 24:20Mat 23:31-35 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. Act 17:13Act 14:19Act 14:5Mal 4:1Mat 23:32Mrk 16:162Th 2:10Act 13:50
But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire. Col 2:51Co 5:31Th 3:61Th 3:10-11Rom 1:132Sa 13:39Luk 22:15Psa 63:1 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us. Rom 15:22Rom 1:13Rev 2:10Zec 3:1-22Co 11:12-14Job 33:14Mat 4:10Rev 12:9-12 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? Php 4:11Th 3:131Th 5:23Php 2:162Co 1:141Co 15:23Mat 16:271Jn 2:28 For ye are our glory and joy. 2Co 1:141Co 11:7Pro 17:6