But now Timothy has come to us from you and given us the good news of your faith and love and that you always think of us with affection and long to see us just as we also long to see you!

Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory.

But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the darkness for the day to overtake you like a thief would.

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received the message with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, despite great affliction.

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we declare it, not to please people but God, who examines our hearts.