For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain, 2Th 3:11Co 15:21Co 15:581Th 2:13Hab 2:13Php 2:161Co 15:101Th 1:3-10 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict. Act 16:22-24Act 4:132Ti 1:12Act 17:2-91Pe 2:14-16Act 16:37Heb 12:2-31Th 1:5 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception. 2Co 2:172Co 4:21Th 4:71Th 2:5-62Co 12:16-182Co 7:21Sa 12:32Co 4:5 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak—not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts. Gal 1:10Rom 8:27Gal 2:72Ti 1:14Psa 17:32Co 4:2Eph 6:61Ch 29:17 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness), Rom 1:92Co 12:17Act 20:33Gal 1:202Pe 2:31Pe 5:21Th 2:102Co 7:2 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as 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, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children. Isa 66:132Ti 2:24-251Th 2:11Isa 49:232Co 10:1Gal 5:22-23Jas 3:171Co 9:22
Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us. 1Jn 3:162Co 12:15Php 2:17Rom 1:11-122Co 6:1Gal 4:19Heb 13:17Php 4:1 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God. 2Th 3:7-92Co 11:9Act 18:32Co 12:13-141Co 9:151Co 9:181Co 9:6-71Th 2:6 You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe. 1Pe 5:31Th 1:52Co 1:12Tit 2:7-82Ti 3:10Act 20:181Sa 12:3-51Th 2:5 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children, 1Co 4:14-15Heb 13:221Ti 5:212Th 3:122Ti 4:1-21Ch 28:201Th 2:71Th 5:11 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own 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 we also thank God without ceasing that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, God’s word, which also works in you who believe. Heb 4:12Rom 10:171Pe 1:231Pe 1:251Pe 2:2Luk 11:28Act 13:481Jn 3:3 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews 1Th 3:4Heb 10:33-34Heb 5:7-82Th 1:42Co 8:1-2Gal 1:221Co 7:171Th 1:6 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please 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 may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost. Act 17:13Act 14:19Act 14:5Mal 4:1Mat 23:32Mrk 16:162Th 2:10Act 13:50
But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season in presence, not in heart, tried even harder 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 because we wanted to come to you—indeed, 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? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus 1 at his coming? Php 4:11Th 3:131Th 5:23Php 2:162Co 1:141Co 15:23Mat 16:271Jn 2:28 For you are our glory and our joy. 2Co 1:141Co 11:7Pro 17:6