1 Thessalonians 2
1 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you was not in vain,
And ye yourselves, my brethren, know our entrance among you, that it was not in vain:
2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.
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.
3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
For our exhortation proceeded not from deceit, nor from impurity, nor in guile:
4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak—not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
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.
5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
For at no time have we used flattering speech; as ye know; nor a cloak of cupidity, God is witness.
6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
Neither have we sought glory from men, either from you or from others, when we might have been chargeable as legates of the Messiah.
7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
But we were lowly among you; and like a nurse, who fondleth her children,
8 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
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.
9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
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.
10 You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
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:
11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
as yourselves know, we entreated each one of you, as a father his children, and comforted your hearts:
12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
and we charged you, to walk as it becometh God, who hath called you to his kingdom and his glory.
13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, God’s word, which also works in you who believe.
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.
14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews
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,
15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and do not please God, and are contrary to all men,
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;
16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
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.
17 But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,
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.
18 because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.
And we purposed to come to you, I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered me.
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is not it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
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?
20 For you are our glory and our joy.
For ye are our glory, and our joy.
