1 Thessalonians 2:11 YLT

⁹  for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

¹⁰  ye 'are' witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

¹¹  even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

¹²  for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.

¹³  Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;