52:002:009 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. 52:002:010 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe: 52:002:011 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, 52:002:012 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. 52:002:013 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. 52:002:014 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: 52:002:015 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: 52:002:016 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. 52:002:017 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire. 52:002:018 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us. 52:002:019 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? 52:002:020 For ye are our glory and joy. 52:003:001 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone; 52:003:002 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith: 52:003:003 That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. 52:003:004 For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know. 52:003:005 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain. 52:003:006 But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you: