⁹ For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the ^[a]gospel of God. ¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and righteously and unblamably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe: ¹¹ as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying,