- As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
- That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
- 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.
- 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:
- 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:
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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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