1 Thessalonians 2
1 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you was not in vain,
he bhrātaraḥ, yuṣmanmadhye 'smākaṁ praveśo niṣphalo na jāta iti yūyaṁ svayaṁ jānītha|
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.
aparaṁ yuṣmābhi ryathāśrāvi tathā pūrvvaṁ philipīnagare kliṣṭā ninditāśca santo'pi vayam īśvarād utsāhaṁ labdhvā bahuyatnena yuṣmān īśvarasya susaṁvādam abodhayāma|
3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
yato'smākam ādeśo bhrānteraśucibhāvād votpannaḥ pravañcanāyukto vā na bhavati|
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.
kintvīśvareṇāsmān parīkṣya viśvasanīyān mattvā ca yadvat susaṁvādo'smāsu samārpyata tadvad vayaṁ mānavebhyo na rurociṣamāṇāḥ kintvasmadantaḥkaraṇānāṁ parīkṣakāyeśvarāya rurociṣamāṇā bhāṣāmahe|
5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
vayaṁ kadāpi stutivādino nābhavāmeti yūyaṁ jānītha kadāpi chalavastreṇa lobhaṁ nācchādayāmetyasmin īśvaraḥ sākṣī vidyate|
6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
vayaṁ khrīṣṭasya preritā iva gauravānvitā bhavitum aśakṣyāma kintu yuṣmattaḥ parasmād vā kasmādapi mānavād gauravaṁ na lipsamānā yuṣmanmadhye mṛdubhāvā bhūtvāvarttāmahi|
7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
yathā kācinmātā svakīyaśiśūn pālayati tathā vayamapi yuṣmān kāṅkṣamāṇā
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.
yuṣmabhyaṁ kevalam īśvarasya susaṁvādaṁ tannahi kintu svakīyaprāṇān api dātuṁ manobhirabhyalaṣāma, yato yūyam asmākaṁ snehapātrāṇyabhavata|
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.
he bhrātaraḥ, asmākaṁ śramaḥ kleśaśca yuṣmābhiḥ smaryyate yuṣmākaṁ ko'pi yad bhāragrasto na bhavet tadarthaṁ vayaṁ divāniśaṁ pariśrāmyanto yuṣmanmadhya īśvarasya susaṁvādamaghoṣayāma|
10 You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
aparañca viśvāsino yuṣmān prati vayaṁ kīdṛk pavitratvayathārthatvanirdoṣatvācāriṇo'bhavāmetyasmin īśvaro yūyañca sākṣiṇa ādhve|
11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
aparañca yadvat pitā svabālakān tadvad vayaṁ yuṣmākam ekaikaṁ janam upadiṣṭavantaḥ sāntvitavantaśca,
12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
ya īśvaraḥ svīyarājyāya vibhavāya ca yuṣmān āhūtavān tadupayuktācaraṇāya yuṣmān pravarttitavantaśceti yūyaṁ jānītha|
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.
yasmin samaye yūyam asmākaṁ mukhād īśvareṇa pratiśrutaṁ vākyam alabhadhvaṁ tasmin samaye tat mānuṣāṇāṁ vākyaṁ na mattveśvarasya vākyaṁ mattvā gṛhītavanta iti kāraṇād vayaṁ nirantaram īśvaraṁ dhanyaṁ vadāmaḥ, yatastad īśvarasya vākyam iti satyaṁ viśvāsināṁ yuṣmākaṁ madhye tasya guṇaḥ prakāśate ca|
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
he bhrātaraḥ, khrīṣṭāśritavatya īśvarasya yāḥ samityo yihūdādeśe santi yūyaṁ tāsām anukāriṇo'bhavata, tadbhuktā lokāśca yadvad yihūdilokebhyastadvad yūyamapi svajātīyalokebhyo duḥkham alabhadhvaṁ|
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,
te yihūdīyāḥ prabhuṁ yīśuṁ bhaviṣyadvādinaśca hatavanto 'smān dūrīkṛtavantaśca, ta īśvarāya na rocante sarvveṣāṁ mānavānāṁ vipakṣā bhavanti ca;
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.
aparaṁ bhinnajātīyalokānāṁ paritrāṇārthaṁ teṣāṁ madhye susaṁvādaghoṣaṇād asmān pratiṣedhanti cetthaṁ svīyapāpānāṁ parimāṇam uttarottaraṁ pūrayanti, kintu teṣām antakārī krodhastān upakramate|
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,
he bhrātaraḥ manasā nahi kintu vadanena kiyatkālaṁ yuṣmatto 'smākaṁ vicchede jāte vayaṁ yuṣmākaṁ mukhāni draṣṭum atyākāṅkṣayā bahu yatitavantaḥ|
18 because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.
dvirekakṛtvo vā yuṣmatsamīpagamanāyāsmākaṁ viśeṣataḥ paulasya mamābhilāṣo'bhavat kintu śayatāno 'smān nivāritavān|
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is not it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
yato'smākaṁ kā pratyāśā ko vānandaḥ kiṁ vā ślāghyakirīṭaṁ? asmākaṁ prabho ryīśukhrīṣṭasyāgamanakāle tatsammukhasthā yūyaṁ kiṁ tanna bhaviṣyatha?
20 For you are our glory and our joy.
yūyam evāsmākaṁ gauravānandasvarūpā bhavatha|
