1 Thessalonians 2
1 For you have known, brothers, that our entrance to you has not been in vain,
You yourselves for know, brothers, the coming of us to you that not in vain has been;
2 but having both suffered before, and having been mistreated (as you have known) in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the good news of God in much conflict,
but (and *k*) having previously suffered and having been mistreated even as you know, in Philippi, we had boldness in the God of us to speak to you the gospel of God amid much conflict.
3 for our exhortation [is] not out of deceit, nor out of uncleanness, nor in guile,
For the exhortation of us [is] not of error nor of impurity (nor *N(k)O*) in trickery;
4 but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,
but even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as men pleasing but (*k*) as God who is examining the hearts of us.
5 for at no time did we come with speech of flattery (as you have known), nor in a pretext for covetousness (God [is] witness),
Never for at any time with word of flattery were we, even as you know, nor with a pretext for greed — God [is] witness —
6 nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ’s apostles.
nor seeking from men glory nor from you nor from others, [though] having authority with weight to be as Christ’s apostles;
7 But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may nurture her own children,
But we were (infants *N(K)O*) in [the] midst of you, as (maybe *N(k)O*) a nursing mother shall cherish her own children,
8 so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because you have become beloved to us,
So (yearning for *N(k)O*) you we were pleased to have imparted to you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because beloved to us (you have become. *N(k)O*)
9 for you remember, brothers, our labor and travail, for working night and day not to be a burden on any of you, we preached the good news of God to you;
You remember for, brothers, the labor of us and hardship: By night (for *k*) and day working in order not to burden anyone of you we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
10 you [are] witnesses—God also—how piously and righteously and blamelessly we became to you who believe,
You [are] witnesses and God, how holily and righteously and blamelessly toward you those believing we were,
11 even as you have known how we are exhorting each one of you, as a father his own children, and comforting, and testifying,
just as you know how one each of you as a father children of himself exhorting you and comforting and (charging *N(k)O*)
12 for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own kingdom and glory.
unto (to walk *N(k)O*) you worthily of God who is calling you to the His own kingdom and glory.
13 And because of this we also continually give thanks to God, that, having received the word of God [by] your hearing from us, you accepted, not the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, who also works in you who believe;
(And *no*) because of this also we ourselves give thanks to God unceasingly that having received [the] word [by your] hearing from us of God you accepted not [the] word of men but even as it is truly [the] word of God, which also works in you who believe.
14 for you became imitators, brothers, of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you suffered such things, even you, from your own countrymen, as they also from the Jews,
you yourselves for imitators became, brothers, of the churches of God which are being in Judea in Christ Jesus, For (the [same] *N(K)O*) (these *N(k)O*) suffered also you yourselves from [your] own countrymen, even as also [did] they from the Jews,
15 who put to death both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and persecuted us, and they are not pleasing God, and [are] contrary to all men,
who both the Lord having killed Jesus and ([their] own *K*) prophets and (us *NK(O)*) having driven out and God not pleasing and to all men opposed,
16 forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, so as to always fill up their sins, but [God’s] anger came on them—to the end!
they are hindering us to the Gentiles to speak that they may be saved, so as to fill up their sins always; Has come now upon them the wrath (of the God *O*) to the utmost.
17 And we, brothers, having been taken from you for the space of an hour—in presence, not in heart—hurried more abundantly to see your face in much desire;
We ourselves however, brothers, having been bereaved of you for [the] time of an hour in face not in heart, more abundantly were eager the face of you to see with great desire.
18 for this reason we wished to come to you (I, indeed, Paul), both once and again, and Satan hindered us;
(therefore *N(k)O*) we wanted to come to you — I myself indeed Paul both once and twice — and hindered us Satan.
19 for what [is] our hope, or joy, or garland of rejoicing? Are not even you before our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?
Who [is] for our hope or joy or crown of boasting? Except only even you before the Lord of us Jesus (Christ *K*) at His coming?
20 For you are our glory and joy.
You yourselves for are the glory of us and joy.
