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For (ὅτι)
Incorrect. Rend. how that. It is explanatory of your election. For similar usage see 1Co 1:26.
Our gospel
The gospel as preached by Paul and his colleagues. Comp. Rom 2:16; Rom 16:25; Gal 1:11; Gal 2:2; 1Th 2:4. My gospel is sometimes used in connection with an emphasis upon some particular feature of the gospel, as in Rom 2:16, where Paul is speaking of the judgment of the world by Christ; or in Rom 16:25, where he is referring to the extension of the messianic kingdom to the Gentiles.
In word (ἐν λόγῳ)
The gospel did not appeal to them as mere eloquent and learned discourse.
In power (ἐν δύναμει)
Power of spiritual persuasion and conviction: not power as displayed in miracles, at least not principally, although miraculous demonstrations may be included. Paul rarely alluded to his power of working miracles.
Assurance (πληροφορίᾳ)
Assured persuasion of the preacher that the message was divine. The word not in pre-Christian Greek writers, nor in lxx. Only in one other passage in Paul, Col 2:2. See Heb 6:11; Heb 10:22.
We were (ἐγενήθημεν)
More correctly, we shewed or proved ourselves.