1 Thessalonians 2
1 For you yourselves, brethren, know that our visit to you did not fail of its purpose.
Un uwegi ungʼeyo, owetewa, ni limbe mane walimougo ne ok obedo kayiem nono.
2 But, as you will remember, after we had already met with suffering and outrage at Philippi, we summoned up boldness, by the help of our God, to tell you God's Good News amid much opposition.
Mana kaka ungʼeyo, noyudo osesandwa kendo oyanywa e dala mar Filipi to kata kamano Nyasaye nomiyowa chir mar yalonu Injili mare e dier lweny gi akweda mager.
3 For our preaching was not grounded on a delusion, nor prompted by mingled motives, nor was there fraud in it.
Chutho, ok wahomb ji gi weche mag miriambo kata gi weche mowuok e paro mochido. Bende ok wan gi paro malingʼ-lingʼ mar wito ji.
4 But as God tested and approved us before entrusting us with His Good News, so in what we say we are seeking not to please men but to please God, who tests and approves our motives.
To wawuoyo kaka joma Nyasaye owuon ema opwodho kendo oyiego kaka jorit Injili. Ok watem mondo wabed malongʼo ne dhano, to wadwaro ni wabed malongʼo mana ne Nyasaye ma nono chunjewa.
5 For, as you are well aware, we have never used the language of flattery nor have we found pretexts for enriching ourselves--God is our witness;
Ungʼeyo maber ni kane wayalonu to ne ok wakonyore gi weche malombou mondo wawuondgo wangʼu, kendo Nyasaye en janeno marwa ni ne ok wapando gombo malingʼ-lingʼ e chunywa mondo wamau gigeu!
6 nor did we seek glory either from you or from any other mere men, although we might have stood on our dignity as Christ's Apostles.
Ne ok wadwar pak moa kuom dhano, bed ni gin un kata ji mamoko. Kaka joote mag Kristo, ne wanyalo miyou tingʼ mapek,
7 On the contrary, in our relations to you we showed ourselves as gentle as a mother is when she tenderly nurses her own children.
to kar timo mano to ne wadoko mamuol e dieru mana kaka min nyithindo rito nyithinde ma pod tindo.
8 Seeing that we were thus drawn affectionately towards you, it would have been a joy to us to have imparted to you not only God's Good News, but to have given our very lives also, because you had become very dear to us.
Ne waherou gihera matut momiyo ne wamor, ok mana mar pogo kodu Injili mar Nyasaye kende, to koda ka ngimawa bende, nikech ne wagenou gi genruok maduongʼ.
9 For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: how, working night and day so as not to become a burden to any one of you, we came and proclaimed among you God's Good News.
Adier unyalo paro, jowetewa, kaka ne wanyagore kendo watiyo matek, ne watiyo odiechiengʼ gotieno mondo kik wami ngʼato angʼata tingʼ mapek e kinde mane wadak kodu ka wayalonu Injili mar Nyasaye.
10 You yourselves are witnesses--and God is witness--how holy and upright and blameless our dealings with you believers were.
Un uwegi un joneno, kaachiel gi Nyasaye bende, kaka ne wadak e dieru ka ngimawa ler kendo nikare, kendo ka waonge ketho e kindu un joma oyie.
11 For you know that we acted towards every one of you as a father does towards his own children, encouraging and cheering you,
Ungʼeyo kaka ne wakonyo ngʼato ka ngʼato kuomu mana kaka wuoro konyo nyithinde owuon,
12 and imploring you to live lives worthy of fellowship with God who is inviting you to share His own Kingship and glory.
kwajiwou kendo wahoyou kendo wasiemou mondo kit ngimau mapile obed malongʼo ne Nyasaye moseluongou e pinyruodhe kod duongʼ mare.
13 And for this further reason we render unceasing thanks to God, that when you received God's Message from our lips, it was as no mere message from men that you embraced it, but as--what it really is--God's Message, which also does its work in the hearts of you who believe.
Bende wadwokone Nyasaye erokamano kinde duto nikech kane wakelonu Wach Nyasaye, to nuwinje murwake, ok ka wach dhano, to nurwake ka Wach Nyasaye adier mana kaka en. Wachno koro chopo dwaro Nyasaye e ngimau, un joma oyie.
14 For you, brethren, followed the example of the Churches of God in Christ Jesus which are in Judaea; seeing that you endured the same ill-treatment at the hands of your countrymen, as they did at the hands of the Jews.
Owetewa, gik mosetimorenu chal gi gik mane osetimore ni kanisa mar jo-Nyasaye man kuom Kristo Yesu e piny Judea, nimar ne usandoru e lwet ogandau mana kaka gin bende negisandore e lwet jo-Yahudi wetegi.
15 Those Jewish persecutors killed both the Lord Jesus and the Prophets, and drove us out of their midst. They are displeasing to God, and are the enemies of all mankind;
Jo-Yahudigo ema nonego Ruoth Yesu kod jonabi mag-gi, kendo gin ema ne giriembowa oko. Ok gilongʼo ne Nyasaye kendo gimon gi ji duto,
16 for they still try to prevent our preaching to the Gentiles so that they may find salvation. They thus continually fill up the measure of their own sins, and God's anger in its severest form has overtaken them.
ka gitemo gi tekregi duto mondo gitamwa yalo Injili ne joma ok jo-Yahudi mondo oyud warruok. Kuom tim ma gitimoni, gimiyo richogi medore ameda kendo mirimb Nyasaye koro osejukogi!
17 But we, brethren, having been for a short time separated from you in bodily presence, though not in heart, endeavoured all the more earnestly, with intense longing, to see you face to face.
Jowetewa, kane ochunowa ni nyaka wawere kodu kuom kinde machwok (ne wapogore mana e ringruok to ok kuom chuny), omiyo siso mane wan-go mar chako limou osemiyo watemo gi yore duto mondo waneu wangʼ gi wangʼ.
18 On this account we wanted to come to you--at least I Paul wanted again and again to do so--but Satan hindered us.
Ne wasedwaro gamingʼa mondo wabi walimu, to moloyo an Paulo ne atemo matek to Satan ne omona.
19 For what is our hope or joy, or the crown of which we boast? Is it not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His Coming?
Koso uparo ni gin ngʼa gini mwakwano kaka genowa gi morwa, kata kaka osimbo marwa ma wanasungrego e nyim Ruoth Yesu Kristo koduogo? Donge en un?
20 Yes, you are our glory and our joy.
Chutho, un e duongʼwa gi morwa!
