1 Thessalonians 2:13

9For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

10You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

11As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

12to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

13For 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, God’s word, which also works in you who believe.

14For 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

15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

16forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

17But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,