1 Thessalonians 2:1-4

Tree of Life Version

Cherishing Spiritual Children

2 For you yourselves know, brothers and sisters, that our visit to you was not in vain. ² On the contrary, after we had first suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, as you know,^[a] we had boldness in our God to tell you the Good News of God—even in the midst of much opposition. ³ For our urging is not out of deceit or impure motives or trickery. ⁴ But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we declare it—not pleasing men but rather God, who examines our hearts.^[b]