^{10 Ref} ye `are' witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

^{11 Ref} even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

^{12 Ref} for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.

^{13 Ref} Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;

^{14 Ref} for ye became imitators, brethren, of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because such things ye suffered, even ye, from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews,