1 Thessalonians 2:9-11

New Catholic Bible

⁹ You surely remember, brethren, our toil and drudgery as we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed the gospel of God to you. ¹⁰ You are witnesses, as is God, that our treatment of you who believed has been devout, upright, and blameless.

¹¹ As you are well aware, we treated each one of you as a father treats his children,