1 Tesalonikafoɔ 2
1 Anuanom, mo ankasa monim sɛ nsra a yɛbɛsraa mo no anyɛ ɔkwa.
For you yourselves, brothers, are conscious that our coming among you was not without effect:
2 Monim ayayadeɛ a wɔyɛɛ yɛn ne ɔyea a wɔyaa yɛn wɔ Filipi ansa na yɛreba mo nkyɛn wɔ Tesalonika. Ɛwom sɛ na nnipa bi tia yɛn deɛ, nanso yɛn Onyankopɔn hyɛɛ yɛn den maa yɛkaa Asɛmpa a ɛfiri ne mu no.
But after we had first undergone much pain and been cruelly attacked as you saw, at Philippi, by the help of God we gave you the good news without fear, though everything was against us.
3 Asɛmpa a yɛka kyerɛɛ mo no mfiri adwemmɔne anaa nnaadaa mu, na mmom, deɛ yɛkaeɛ no yɛ nokorɛ turodoo.
For our witness does not come from error or from an unclean heart or from deceit:
4 Daa yɛka nokorɛ sɛdeɛ Onyankopɔn hwehwɛ yɛn sɛ yɛnka no, ɛfiri sɛ, ɔpene so na ɔde Asɛmpa no nso ama yɛn sɛ yɛnka. Yɛmpɛ sɛ yɛsɔ nnipa ani, na mmom, Onyankopɔn a ɔsɔ yɛn adwene hwɛ no ani na yɛpɛ sɛ yɛsɔ.
But even as the good news was given to us by the approval of God, so we give it out; not as pleasing men, but God by whom our hearts are tested.
5 Monim pefee sɛ yɛamma ha sɛ yɛrebɛka nnaadaasɛm akyerɛ mo anaasɛ yɛrebɛka nsɛm sikanibereɛ so. Onyankopɔn ne yɛn adanseɛ.
For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,
6 Sɛ moyɛ Kristo asomafoɔ no enti, anka yɛwɔ ho kwan sɛ yɛpɛ animuonyam firi mo nkyɛn, nanso yɛmmisaa animuonyam mfirii mo anaasɛ onipa foforɔ bi nkyɛn.
Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.
7 Na yɛwɔ mo nkyɛn no, na yɛne mo te ɔdwoɔ so, sɛdeɛ ɔbaatan korɔkorɔ ne mma.
But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:
8 Yɛhwɛɛ mo yie, nyaa mo ho anigyeɛ sononko, mpo yɛdaa yɛn ho so sɛ yɛde yɛn nkwa bɛto hɔ ama mo ɛberɛ a yɛde Onyankopɔn Asɛmpa no brɛɛ mo no.
Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us.
9 Anuanom, menim sɛ mokae adwuma a yɛyɛeɛ ne brɛ a yɛbrɛeɛ. Yɛyɛɛ adwuma awia ne anadwo sɛdeɛ Onyankopɔn Asɛmpa no ka a yɛka kyerɛɛ mo no, yɛremfa ɔhaw bi mmɛto mo so.
For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.
10 Mo ne Onyankopɔn yɛ yɛn adansefoɔ. Yɛn suban a yɛdaa no adi kyerɛɛ mo a mogyee Asɛmpa no diiɛ no yɛ kronn a ɛyɛ na mfomsoɔ biara nni ho.
You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;
11 Mo ara monim sɛ yɛne mo tenaa sɛdeɛ agya ne nʼankasa mma tena.
Even as you saw how, like a father with his children, we were teaching and comforting you all, and giving witness,
12 Yɛhyɛɛ mo nkuran; yɛkyekyeree mo werɛ na yɛkɔɔ so tuu mo fo sɛ montena ase wɔ ɛkwan a ɛsɔ Onyankopɔn a ɔfrɛ mo wɔ nʼAhennie ne nʼanimuonyam mu no so.
So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory.
13 Daa yɛbɛda Onyankopɔn ase wɔ saa asɛm yi ho. Ɛberɛ a yɛkaa Onyankopɔn asɛm kyerɛɛ mo no, motieeɛ, gye dii sɛ ɛnyɛ asɛm a ɛfiri onipa nkyɛn, na mmom, ampa ara sɛ, ɛfiri Onyankopɔn nkyɛn. Mo a moagye adi no, Onyankopɔn yɛ adwuma wɔ mo mu.
And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.
14 Anuanom, nsɛm a ɛtotoo Onyankopɔn asafo a na ɛwowɔ Yudea ne nnipa a wɔwɔ hɔ a na wɔyɛ Kristo Yesu nkurɔfoɔ no bi ara na ato mo yi. Ɔtaa a mo ara mo manfoɔ taa mo no, saa ara na Yudafoɔ no nso taa asafo no.
For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews;
15 Saa nnipa no kumm Awurade Yesu ne adiyifoɔ no, na wɔtaa yɛn nso. Onyankopɔn ani nsɔ wɔn, na wɔne nnipa di asi ɛberɛ biara.
Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men;
16 Wɔbɔ mmɔden sɛ wɔbɛsi yɛn kwan sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a yɛrentumi nkɔka asɛm a ɛbɛma amanamanmufoɔ no nkwagyeɛ nkyerɛ wɔn. Yei ma wɔn bɔne kɔɔ so daa. Na Onyankopɔn abufuo wɔ wɔn so.
Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.
17 Me nnamfonom, ɛberɛ tiawa bi mu no, yɛantumi amma mo nkyɛn, nanso ɛberɛ biara na yɛdwene mo ho. Yɛpɛɛ sɛ yɛhunu mo, na yɛbɔɔ mmɔden biara sɛ yɛbɛhyia mo ankasa.
But we, my brothers, being away from you for a short time, in body but not in heart, had all the more desire to see your face;
18 Yɛpɛɛ sɛ yɛbɛsane aba mo nkyɛn. Me Paulo deɛ, na mepɛ sɛ meba hɔ boro pɛnkorɔ nanso ɔbonsam sii yɛn ho ɛkwan.
For which reason we made attempts to come to you, even I, Paul, once and again; but Satan kept us from coming.
19 Nanso, ne nyinaa akyi no, mo nko ara ne yɛn anidasoɔ ne yɛn ahosɛpɛ. Na sɛ yɛbɛtumi ahoahoa yɛn ho nkonimdie mu wɔ Awurade Yesu anim wɔ ne ba no mu a, ɛgyina mo so.
For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not even you, before our Lord Jesus, at his coming?
20 Nokorɛm, yɛn ahohoahoa ne yɛn ahosɛpɛ gyina mo so.
For you are our glory and our joy.
