1 Thessalonians 2:10-16

English Standard Version

¹⁰ You are witnesses, and ^(A)God also, ^(B)how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers. ¹¹ For you know how, ^(C)like a father with his children, ¹² we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and ^(D)charged ^(E)you to walk in a manner worthy of God, ^(F)who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

¹³ And ^(G)we also thank God constantly^[a] for this, that when you received ^(H)the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it ^(I)not as the word of men^[b] but as what it really is, the word of God, ^(J)which is at work in you believers. ¹⁴ For you, brothers, ^(K)became imitators of ^(L)the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For ^(M)you suffered the same things from your own countrymen ^(N)as they did from the Jews,^{[c] 15 (O)}who killed both the Lord Jesus and ^(P)the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and ^(Q)oppose all mankind ^16 (R)by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always ^(S)to fill up the measure of their sins. But ^(T)wrath has come upon them at last!^[d]