Their Good Example

We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,

For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance, as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake.

But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tests our hearts.

Nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, when we might have made demands as apostles of Christ.

Their Conversion

For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God and are contrary to all men,