“For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:”
1 Thessalonians 2:1 (KJV)
Context Reading
1For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain: 2But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention. 3For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: