and that our Gospel came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
our gospel: Paul calls the message he proclaimed "our gospel." In the letter to the Romans, he used the singular pronoun "my gospel" (Romans 2:16). It is "our" or "my" gospel only in the sense that the writer has made it his own. He has embraced its teaching and appropriated its message. It is not the author’s intention to make any claim to authorship. The gospel does not originate with him. In point of origin it is "the word of the Lord" (1:8) and "the gospel of God" (2:2). "If any may think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord" (1 Corinthians 14:37).