^{7 Ref} But we were gentle among of you, as when a nurse cherishes her own children.

^{8 Ref} Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

^{9 Ref} For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Gospel of God.

^{10 Ref} You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

^{11 Ref} As you know how we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

^{12 Ref} to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.