13 And we also thank God ^sconstantly¹ for this, that when you received the word of God, which you ^theard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men² but as what it really is, the word of God, which is ^uat work in you believers. 14 For you, brothers, ^vbecame imitators of ^wthe churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For ^xyou suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,³