Summary: <p><strong> Hi, this is Ricky and our Daily Devotional today is found in 1 Thessalonians 2. </strong><strong>Feel free to read along in the show notes below.</strong><br> <strong>Also, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this scripture so comment on this episode at <a href="http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/1-thessalonians-2/">http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/1-thessalonians-2/</a>.</strong></p> <p class="chapter-1"><span class="text 1Thess-2-1"><span class="chapternum">1 </span>For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain.</span><span id="en-ESV-29556" class="text 1Thess-2-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict.</span> <span id="en-ESV-29557" class="text 1Thess-2-3"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive,</span> <span id="en-ESV-29558" class="text 1Thess-2-4"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.</span> <span id="en-ESV-29559" class="text 1Thess-2-5"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness.</span> <span id="en-ESV-29560" class="text 1Thess-2-6"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ.</span> <span id="en-ESV-29561" class="text 1Thess-2-7"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.</span> <span id="en-ESV-29562" class="text 1Thess-2-8"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.</span></p> <p><span id="en-ESV-29563" class="text 1Thess-2-9"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.</span> <span id="en-ESV-29564" class="text 1Thess-2-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers.</span> <span id="en-ESV-29565" class="text 1Thess-2-11"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>For you know how, like a father with his children,</span> <span id="en-ESV-29566" class="text 1Thess-2-12"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.</span></p> <p><span id="en-ESV-29567" class="text 1Thess-2-13"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.</span> <span id="en-ESV-29568" class="text 1Thess-2-14"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,</span> <span id="en-ESV-29569" class="text 1Thess-2-15"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind</span> <span id="en-ESV-29570" class="text 1Thess-2-16"><sup class="versenum">16 </sup>by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last!</span></p> <p><span class="text 1Thess-2-17"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>But since we w</span></p>
