^{10 Ref} You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;

^{11 Ref} Even as you saw how, like a father with his children, we were teaching and comforting you all, and giving witness,

^{12 Ref} So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory.

^{13 Ref} And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.

^{14 Ref} For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews;