1 Tasaloniiqee 2
1 Yaa obboloota, isin bira dhufuun keenya sun akkasumaan akka hin taʼin isinuu ni beektu.
Yes, Brothers, you yourselves know that your reception of us was not without result.
2 Akkuma isin beektan nu kanaan dura Fiiliphisiyuusitti dhiphanneerra; akka malees qaaneffamneerra. Garuu yoo mormiin cimaan nu qunname illee gargaarsa Waaqa keenyaatiin wangeela isaa isinitti himuudhaaf ija jabina arganneerra.
For, although we had experienced suffering and ill-treatment, as you know, at Philippi, we had the courage, by the help of our God, to tell you God’s Good News in spite of great opposition.
3 Gorsi nu kenninus kan dogoggora yookaan xuraaʼummaa yookaan gowwoomsaa irraa dhufe miti.
Our appeal to you was not based on a delusion, nor was it made from unworthy motives, or with any intention of misleading you.
4 Qooda kanaa nu akka warra Waaqni wangeela imaanaa itti kennuuf qoratee fudhateetti dubbanna. Yaaliin keenyas Waaqa garaa keenya qoru sana gammachiisuuf malee nama gammachiisuuf miti.
But, having been found worthy by God to be entrusted with the Good News, therefore we tell it; with a view to please, not men, but God who proves our hearts.
5 Akkuma isin beektanii fi akkuma Waaqnis dhugaa baʼu sana nu dubbii sossobbiitti hin fayyadamne; doqnummaa dhokfachuufis haguuggannee gara keessan hin dhufne.
Never at any time, as you know, did we use the language of flattery, or make false professions in order to hide selfish aims. God will bear witness to that.
6 Nu namoota irraa, isin irraas taʼu yookaan warra kaan irraa ulfina hin barbaanne. Nu akka ergamoota Kiristoosiitti baʼaa isinitti taʼuu ni dandeenya ture;
Nor did we seek to win honour from men, whether from you or from others, although, as Apostles of Christ, we might have burdened you with our support.
7 nu garuu akkuma haadha daaʼimman ishee kunuunfattu tokkoo taane. Garraamummaadhaan gidduu keessan jiraanne.
But we lived among you with the simplicity of a child; we were like a woman nursing her own children.
8 Nu waan akka malee isin jaallanneef wangeela Waaqaa qofa utuu hin taʼin lubbuu keenya illee isinii kennuun fedhii keenya ture; isin nu biratti akka malee jaallatamoo turtaniitii.
In our strong affection for you, that seemed to us the best way of sharing with you, not only God’s Good news, but our very lives as well — so dear had you become to us.
9 Yaa obboloota, isin dadhabbii fi dhiphina keenya ni yaadattuutii; nu yeroo wangeela Waaqaa isinii lallabnetti nama tokkotti illee akka baʼaa hin taaneef halkanii guyyaa hojjechaa turre.
You will not have forgotten, Brothers, our labour and toil. Night and day we used to work at our trades, so as not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you God’s Good News.
10 Nu hammam qulqullummaan, qajeelummaa fi mudaa malee isin warra amantan gidduu akka jiraanne isin dhugaa ni baatu; Waaqnis dhugaa baʼa.
You will bear witness, and God also, that our relations with you who believed in Christ were pure, and upright, and beyond reproach.
11 Isin akka nu akkuma abbaan ijoollee isaa gorsee jajjabeessutti tokkoo tokkoo keessaniif taane ni beektuutii;
Indeed, you know that, like a father with his own children, we used to encourage and comfort every one of you, and solemnly plead with you;
12 kunis akka isin jireenya Waaqa isa mootummaa isaattii fi ulfina isaatti isin waamu sanaaf malu jiraattaniif.
so that you should make your daily lives worthy of God who is calling you into the glory of his Kingdom.
13 Isinis yommuu dubbii Waaqaa kan nurraa dhageessan sana fudhattanitti akkuma inni jirutti, akka dubbii Waaqaa kan isin warra amantan keessatti hojjetuutti fudhattan malee akka dubbii namaatti waan hin fudhatiniif nu utuu gargar hin kutin Waaqa galateeffanna.
This, too, is a reason why we, on our part, are continually thanking God — because, in receiving the teaching that you had from us, you accepted it, not as the teaching of man, but as what it really is — the teaching of God, which is even now doing its work within you who believe in Christ.
14 Yaa obboloota, isin fakkeenya waldoota kiristaanaa Waaqaa warra Kiristoos Yesuusitti jiran kanneen biyya Yihuudaa jiranii duukaa buutaniirtu; akkuma waldoonni kunneen harka Yihuudootaatti dhiphatan sana isinis harka namoota biyya keessaniitti dhiphattaniirtu;
For you, Brothers, began to follow the example of the Churches of God in Judea which are in union with Jesus Christ; you, in your turn, suffering at the hands of your fellow-citizens, in the same way as those Churches did at the hands of the Jews —
15 Yihuudoonni kunneen warra Gooftaa Yesuusii fi raajota ajjeesanii nu illee ariʼatanii dha. Isaan Waaqa hin gammachiisan; nama hundattis diina taʼu;
The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the Prophets, and persecuted us also. They do not try to please God, and they are enemies to all mankind,
16 isaanis cubbuu isaanii guuttachuuf jedhanii akka nu akka Namoonni Ormaa fayyifamaniif itti hin dubbanne nu dhowwu. Dhuma irratti garuu dheekkamsi Waaqaa isaanitti dhufeera.
for they would prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles with a view to their Salvation, and thus are always ‘filling up the measure of their iniquity.’ But the Wrath of God has come upon them to the full!
17 Garuu yaa obboloota, erga yaadaan utuu hin taʼin fooniin yeroo gabaabaaf isin irraa gargar baanee jalqabnee fuula keessan arguuf hawwii guddaan caalchifnee dhamaane.
As for ourselves, Brothers, our having been bereaved of you even for a short time — though in body only, and not in spirit — made us all the more eager to see your faces again; and the longing to do so was strong upon us.
18 Nu gara keessan dhufuu barbaannee turreetii; dhugumaanuu ani Phaawulos yeroo baayʼee gara keessan dhufuu yaaleera; garuu Seexanatu nu dhowwe.
That was why we made up our minds to go and see you — at least I, Paul, did, more than once — but Satan put difficulties in our way.
19 Yommuu Gooftaan keenya Yesuus Kiristoos dhufutti fuula isaa duratti abdiin keenya yookaan gammachuun keenya yookaan gonfoon nu ittiin of jajnu eenyu? Isinuma mitii?
For what hope or joy will be ours, or what crown shall we have to boast of, in the presence of our Lord Jesus, at his Coming, if it be not you?
20 Isin ulfinaa fi gammachuu keenyaatii.
You are our pride and our delight!
