1 Thessalonians 2:10-14
2:10 You are witnesses, and so is God, as to how holy and righteous and blameless our conduct was toward you who believe.
2:11 As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children,
2:12 exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory.
2:13 And so 1 we too constantly thank God that when you received God’s message that you heard from us, 2 you accepted it not as a human message, 3 but as it truly is, God’s message, which is at work among you who believe.
2:14 For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, 4 of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,
1 tn Grk “for this reason,” which seems to look back to Paul’s behavior just described. But it may look forward to v. 13b and mean: “and here is another reason that we constantly thank God: that…”
2 tn Grk “God’s word of hearing from us.”
3 tn Paul’s focus is their attitude toward the message he preached: They received it not as a human message but a message from God.
4 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:4.