1 Thessalonians 2:12-14

English Standard Version

¹²we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and ^(A)charged ^(B)you to walk in a manner worthy of God, ^(C)who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

¹³And ^(D)we also thank God constantly^[a] for this, that when you received ^(E)the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it ^(F)not as the word of men^[b] but as what it really is, the word of God, ^(G)which is at work in you believers. ¹⁴For you, brothers, ^(H)became imitators of ^(I)the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For ^(J)you suffered the same things from your own countrymen ^(K)as they did from the Jews,^[c]

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Footnotes

1 Thessalonians 2:13 Or without ceasing
1 Thessalonians 2:13 The Greek word anthropoi can refer to both men and women
1 Thessalonians 2:14 The Greek word Ioudaioi can refer to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, who opposed the Christian faith in that time