[a]Thus being affectioned toward you, our good will was to have dealt unto you, not the Gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

[b]For ye remember, brethren, (A)our labor and travail: for we labored day and night, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, and preached unto you the Gospel of God.

10 [c]Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and justly, and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:8 To have the flock that is committed unto him in more estimation than his own life.
  2. 1 Thessalonians 2:9 To depart with his own rights rather than to be chargeable to his sheep.
  3. 1 Thessalonians 2:10 To excel others in example of godly life.

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