- just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children,
- so that you would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
- For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.
- For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews,
- who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men,
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- For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children,
- encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.
- And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.
- For you, brothers, became imitators of God's churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own countrymen the same things those churches suffered from the Jews,
- who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to all men
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