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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.
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For you, brethren, becameimitators of the churches of God in ChristJesus that are in Judea, for you alsoendured the samesufferings at the hands of your owncountrymen, even as they did from the Jews,