1 Thessalonians 2:1-3

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Paul’s Ministry in Thessalonica

2 For you yourselves know, brethren, that our visit to you was not in vain; ² but though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the face of great opposition. ³ For our appeal does not spring from error or uncleanness, nor is it made with guile;