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"1": "For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you has not been in vain.",
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"2": "But having previously suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, just as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much struggle.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"3": "For our exhortation was not from error, nor from impurity, nor from deceit,",
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"4": "but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing to men, but to God, the one who examines our hearts.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"5": "For we did not come at that time in words of flattery, just as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness—",
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"6": "nor seeking glory from men, either from you or from others,\n\\ts\\*",
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"7": "having been able to be a burden as apostles of Christ. But we became little children in the midst of you, as if a mother might comfort her own children.\n\\f + \\ft Some ancient copies read,\\fqa Instead, we were as gentle among you as a mother comforting her own children\\fqa*.\\f*",
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"8": "Having affection for you in this manner, we were pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our own souls. For you had become beloved to us.",
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"9": "For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil, night and day working, in order not to be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God;\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"10": "You are witnesses, and so is God, how holy, and righteous, and blameless we became toward you who believe.",
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"11": "just as you know as each one of you, as a father his own children,",
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"12": "exhorting you and encouraging and testifying for you to walk worthily of God, who is calling you into his own kingdom and glory.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
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"13": "And because of this, we also thank God constantly, that having received the word of God heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of man, but just as it truly is, the word of God, which is also working in you who believe.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"14": "For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because the same things you also suffered from your own countrymen, just as they also from the Jews,",
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"15": "who have killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and are not pleasing to God, and are hostile to all men,",
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"16": "forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles so that they might be saved, to always fill up their own sins. But wrath has come upon them in the end.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
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"17": "But we, brothers, having been separated from you for the time of an hour, by face, not in heart, became extremely eager to see your faces, in much desire.",
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"18": "For we desired to come to you—indeed I, Paul, both once and twice—but Satan hindered us.",
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"19": "For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? Is it not even you before our Lord Jesus at his coming?",
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"20": "For you are our glory and joy.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"front": "\\p"
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}
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