So in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, through your faith.

We thank God always for all of you as we mention you constantly in our prayers,

For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins, but wrath has come upon them completely.

For how can we thank God enough for you, for all the joy we feel because of you before our God?