1 Thessalonians 2:13 ASV

¹¹  as ye know how we `dealt with' each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging `you', and testifying,

¹²  to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.

¹³  And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, `even the word' of God, ye accepted `it' not `as' the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.

¹⁴  For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;

¹⁵  who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men;