As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children,

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,

For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come in the same way as a thief in the night.

So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober.

nor to seek glory from people, either from you or from others,

You are witnesses, and so is God, as to how holy and righteous and blameless our conduct was toward you who believe.

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

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.