1 Thessalonians 2:9-16

New American Standard Bible

⁹ For you recall, brothers and sisters, our ^(A)labor and hardship: it was by ^(B)working night and day so as not to be a ^(C)burden to any of you, that we proclaimed to you the ^(D)gospel of God. ¹⁰ You are witnesses, and so is ^(E)God, of ^(F)how devoutly and rightly and blamelessly we ^[a]behaved toward you ^[b]believers; ¹¹ just as you know how we were ^(G)exhorting and encouraging and ^(H)imploring each one of you as ^(I)a father would his own children, ¹² so that you would ^(J)walk in a manner worthy of the God who ^(K)calls you into His own kingdom and ^(L)glory.

¹³ For this reason we also constantly ^(M)thank God that when you received the ^(N)word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it ^(O)not as the word of mere men, but as what it really is, the word of God, ^(P)which also is at work in you who believe. ¹⁴ For you, brothers and sisters, became ^(Q)imitators of ^(R)the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are ^(S)in Judea, for ^(T)you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, ^(U)even as they did from the Jews, ^15 (V)who both killed the Lord Jesus and ^(W)the prophets, and ^[c]drove us out. ^[d]They are not pleasing to God, ^[e]but hostile to all people, ^16 (X)hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles ^(Y)so that they may be saved; with the result that they always ^[f](Z)reach the limit of their sins. But ^(AA)wrath has come upon them ^[g]fully.