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Havingsofond an affection for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our ownlives, because you had becomeverydear to us.
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For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, how workingnight and dayso as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
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For thisreason we alsoconstantlythankGod that when you received the word of Godwhich you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, whichalsoperforms its work in you who believe.