12 we 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.

13 And (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.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:13 Or without ceasing
  2. 1 Thessalonians 2:13 The Greek word anthropoi can refer to both men and women

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