1 Thessalonians 2
1 And ye yourselves, my brethren, know our entrance among you, that it was not in vain:
For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it hath not been found vain:
2 but we first suffered and were treated with indignity, as ye know, at Philippi; and then, in a great agony, with confidence in our God, we addressed to you the gospel of the Messiah.
but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.
3 For our exhortation proceeded not from deceit, nor from impurity, nor in guile:
For our exhortation [is] not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
4 but as we had been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who searcheth our hearts.
but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.
5 For at no time have we used flattering speech; as ye know; nor a cloak of cupidity, God is witness.
For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;
6 Neither have we sought glory from men, either from you or from others, when we might have been chargeable as legates of the Messiah.
nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
7 But we were lowly among you; and like a nurse, who fondleth her children,
But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:
8 so we also fondled you, and were desirous to impart to you, not the gospel of God merely, but also our own soul, because ye were dear to us.
even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.
9 For ye recollect, brethren, that we labored and toiled, working with our own hands, by night and by day, that we might not be chargeable to any one of you.
For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how we preached to you the gospel of God, purely, and uprightly, and were blameless towards all them that believe:
Ye are witnesses, and God [also], how holily and righteously and unblamably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe:
11 as yourselves know, we entreated each one of you, as a father his children, and comforted your hearts:
as ye know how we [dealt with] each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging [you], and testifying,
12 and we charged you, to walk as it becometh God, who hath called you to his kingdom and his glory.
to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.
13 Therefore also we give thanks unceasingly to God, that the word of God which ye received from us, ye did not receive as the word of men, but as being truly the word of God, which worketh efficiently in you and in them that believe.
And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, [even the word] of God, ye accepted [it] not [as] the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.
14 For ye, my brethren, became assimilated to the churches of God in Judaea, the persons who are in Jesus the Messiah; in that ye so suffered, even ye from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews,
For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judæa in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;
15 the persons who slew our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and persecuted their own prophets and us; and they please not God, and are made hostile to all men;
who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;
16 and they forbid us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may have life; to fill up their sins at all times. And wrath cometh on them to the uttermost.
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
17 But we, my brethren, have been bereaved of you for a short time, (in visible presence, not in our hearts, ) and have the more exerted ourselves, to behold your faces, with great affection.
But we, brethren, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face with great desire:
18 And we purposed to come to you, I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered me.
because we would fain have come unto you, I Paul once and again; and Satan hindered us.
19 For what is our hope, and our joy, and the crown of our glorying; unless it be ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
20 For ye are our glory, and our joy.
For ye are our glory and our joy.
