1 Thessalonians 2:9-16

English Standard Version

⁹ For you remember, brothers, ^(A)our labor and toil: we ^(B)worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. ¹⁰ You are witnesses, and ^(C)God also, ^(D)how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers. ¹¹ For you know how, ^(E)like a father with his children, ¹² we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and ^(F)charged ^(G)you to walk in a manner worthy of God, ^(H)who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

¹³ And ^(I)we also thank God constantly^[a] for this, that when you received ^(J)the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it ^(K)not as the word of men^[b] but as what it really is, the word of God, ^(L)which is at work in you believers. ¹⁴ For you, brothers, ^(M)became imitators of ^(N)the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For ^(O)you suffered the same things from your own countrymen ^(P)as they did from the Jews,^{[c] 15 (Q)}who killed both the Lord Jesus and ^(R)the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and ^(S)oppose all mankind ^16 (T)by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always ^(U)to fill up the measure of their sins. But ^(V)wrath has come upon them at last!^[d]