not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

although we could have imposed our weight as apostles of Christ; instead we became little children among you. Like a nursing mother caring for her own children,

to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you.

We pray earnestly night and day to see you in person and make up what may be lacking in your faith.

For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,