New Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Thessalonians 2:11
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For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—
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As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father [doth] his children,
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As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
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,
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just as you⁺ know how, each one of you⁺, as a father his own children,
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1 Thessalonians 2
9 Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
10 You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous, and blameless our conduct was among you who believed.
11 For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—
12 encouraging you, comforting you, and urging you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
13 And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which is also now at work in you who believe.
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