1 Thessalonians 2
1 For ye know yourselves, brethren, our entering in which [we had] to you, that it has not been in vain;
兄弟姐妹们，你们都知道，我们的造访对你们意味着什么，那并不是浪费时间。
2 but, having suffered before and been insulted, even as ye know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the glad tidings of God with much earnest striving.
你们应该记得，虽然我们在腓立比受了那么多苦和凌辱，面对强烈的反对，我们仍然通过上帝的帮助，与你们分享上帝的福音。
3 For our exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile;
因为我们所说的并非欺骗，不是污秽或诡诈。
4 but even as we have been approved of God to have the glad tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proves our hearts.
相反，我们所说的一切都获得了上帝的批准，他把福音委托给我们。我们的目的不是取悦人，而是取悦上帝，他在评判我们的动机。
5 For we have not at any time been [among you] with flattering discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for covetousness, God [is] witness;
你们知道，我们从来不说奉承之语，也从不会故起贪婪自私之心，上帝可以作证。
6 nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been a charge as Christ's apostles;
我们并非想要赢得其他人的赞美，不是你们，也不是任何人。作为基督的使者，我们本来会成为你们的“负担。”
7 but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would cherish her own children.
但我们在你们中，我们却像母亲照顾自己的孩子一样善良行事。
8 Thus, yearning over you, we had found our delight in having imparted to you not only the glad tidings of God, but our own lives also, because ye had become beloved of us.
我们如此爱你们，不但原意把上帝的福音传给你们，甚至连我们自己也乐意给你们，因为我们爱你们。
9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.
兄弟姐妹们，别忘记我们所有的辛劳，日夜不停地工作，就是为了在与你们分享上帝的福音时，不会成为你们的负担。
10 Ye [are] witnesses, and God, how piously and righteously and blamelessly we have conducted ourselves with you that believe:
我们以公正、无可指责的圣洁态度对待你们，我们的行为你们可以佐证，上帝也可以作证。
11 as ye know how, as a father his own children, we used to exhort each one of you, and comfort and testify,
你们知道我们如何关爱你们所有人，就像父亲对待儿女一样。我们鼓励你们、安慰你们、分享我们的经历，
12 that ye should walk worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory.
让你们可以像上帝希望的那样生活，这上帝召唤你们走进他的王国和荣耀。
13 And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received [the] word of [the] report of God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's word, which also works in you who believe.
此外：我们一直在感谢上帝，当你们听到并接受上帝之道，你们没有把它们当做人类之道，而是真正的上帝之道。相信上帝，就会产生这样的效果。
14 For ye, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for ye also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also they of the Jews,
兄弟姐妹们，你们的经历就像位于犹太地的上帝教会一样，这些教会属于耶稣基督。就像你们的犹太基督徒教友一样，他们遭受犹太领袖的迫害，
15 who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have driven us out by persecution, and do not please God, and [are] against all men,
那些领袖杀了耶稣和众先知，又把我们赶出来。他们得不到上帝的喜悦，与所有的人作对，
16 forbidding us to speak to the nations that they may be saved, that they may fill up their sins always: but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.
试图阻挠我们向其他国家传道，不让他们得救。他们始终充满最大的恶，但所有的审判必将降临到他们身上。
17 But we, brethren, having been bereaved of you and separated for a little moment in person, not in heart, have used more abundant diligence to see your face with much desire;
兄弟姐妹们，因为有一段时间没有见到你们，我们感觉好像经历了一次与家人的离别，但这离别只是身体离开，而不是精神。我们非常渴望再次亲自见到你们，这就是我们想要做的。
18 wherefore we have desired to come to you, even I Paul, both once and twice, and Satan has hindered us.
我们非常想造访你们，我保罗试过很多次，只是撒旦阻挡了我们。
19 For what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? [are] not ye also before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
但正是你们给了我们希望，让我们感到幸福，当主耶稣再次降临，当我们站在他面前，我们会因你们而感到骄傲！
20 for ye are our glory and joy.
你们就是我们的荣耀和欢喜！
