⁹ For you recall, brothers and sisters, our ^(A)labor and hardship: it was by ^(B)working night and day so as not to be a ^(C)burden to any of you, that we proclaimed to you the ^(D)gospel of God. ¹⁰ You are witnesses, and so is ^(E)God, of ^(F)how devoutly and rightly and blamelessly we ^[a]behaved toward you ^[b]believers; ¹¹ just as you know how we were ^(G)exhorting and encouraging and ^(H)imploring each one of you as ^(I)a father would his own children,