Devotions

“For you yourselves know, brethren, that our coming to you was not in vain, but after we had already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had…

“For we wanted to come to you – I, Paul, more than once – and yet Satan hindered us.  For who is our hope or joy or crown of exultation? …

“But we, brethren, having been taken away from you for a short while – in person, not in spirit – were all the more eager with great desire to see…

“The Jews, who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out.  They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men, hindering us from speaking…

“For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own…

“For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men,…

“Just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children, so that you would walk in a…

“You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and uprightly and blamelessly we behaved toward you believers” (1 Thessalonians 2:10) “Devoutly, uprightly, and blamelessly we are to do the…

“For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel…

“Having so fond an affection for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become very…