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You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
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As you know how we exhorted, comforted, and implored everyone of you, as a father does his own children,
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to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.
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For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
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For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;