1 Thessalonians 2
1 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,
| فَإِنَّكُمْ، أَيُّهَا الإِخْوَةُ، تَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ قُدُومَنَا إِلَيْكُمْ لَمْ يَكُنْ بَاطِلاً. | ١ |
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.
| فَمَعَ أَنَّنَا كُنَّا قَدْ قَاسَيْنَا الأَلَمَ وَالإِهَانَةَ فِي مَدِينَةِ فِيلِبِّي، كَمَا تَعْلَمُونَ، فَقَدْ تَجَرَّأْنَا فِي إِلَهِنَا أَنْ نُكَلِّمَكُمْ بِإِنْجِيلِ اللهِ مُجَاهِدِينَ فِي وَجْهِ الْمُعَارَضَةِ الشَّدِيدَةِ. | ٢ |
3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
| فَمَا كَانَ وَعْظُنَا صَادِراً عَنْ ضَلاَلٍ وَلاَ عَنْ نَجَاسَةٍ، وَلاَ خَالَطَهُ مَكْرٌ، | ٣ |
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.
| بَلْ إِنَّنَا نَتَكَلَّمُ كَمَنْ تَبَيَّنَ مِنِ اخْتِبَارِ اللهِ لَهُمْ أَنَّهُمْ أَهْلٌ لأَنْ يُؤْتَمَنُوا عَلَى الإِنْجِيلِ، لِنُرْضِيَ لاَ النَّاسَ بَلِ اللهَ الَّذِي يَخْتَبِرُ قُلُوبَنَا. | ٤ |
5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
| وَكَمَا تَعْلَمُونَ أَيْضاً، فَإِنَّنَا لَمْ نَسْتَعْمِلْ مَعَكُمْ قَطُّ كَلاَمَ التَّمَلُّقِ، وَلاَ اتَّخَذْنَا ذَرِيعَةً لِلطَّمَعِ إِنَّمَا اللهُ شَاهِدٌ | ٥ |
6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
| وَلاَ سَعَيْنَا لِنَوَالِ مَجْدٍ مِنَ النَّاسِ، لاَ مِنْكُمْ وَلاَ مِنْ غَيْرِكُمْ، | ٦ |
7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
| مَعَ أَنَّ لَنَا الْحَقَّ فِي أَنْ نَفْرِضَ أَنْفُسَنَا عَلَيْكُمْ بِاعْتِبَارِنَا رُسُلاً لِلْمَسِيحِ. وَلَكِنَّنَا كُنَّا مُتَرَفِّقِينَ بِكُمْ كَأُمٍّ مُرْضِعٍ تَحْنُو عَلَى أَوْلاَدِهَا. | ٧ |
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.
| وَإِذْ كَانَ حُنُوُّنَا عَلَيْكُمْ شَدِيداً، ارْتَضَيْنَا أَنْ نُقَدِّمَ إِلَيْكُمْ لاَ إِنْجِيلَ اللهِ فَقَطْ بَلْ أَنْفُسَنَا أَيْضاً، لأَنَّكُمْ صِرْتُمْ مَحْبُوبِينَ لَدَيْنَا. | ٨ |
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.
| فَأَنْتُمْ تَذْكُرُونَ، أَيُّهَا الإِخْوَةُ، جَهْدَنَا وَكَدَّنَا، إِذْ بَشَّرْنَاكُمْ بِإِنْجِيلِ اللهِ وَنَحْنُ نَشْتَغِلُ لَيْلاً وَنَهَاراً لِكَيْ لاَ نَكُونَ عِبْئاً ثَقِيلاً عَلَى أَحَدٍ مِنْكُمْ. | ٩ |
10 You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
| فَأَنْتُمْ تَشْهَدُونَ، وَيَشْهَدُ اللهُ، كَيْفَ تَصَرَّفْنَا بَيْنَكُمْ، أَنْتُمُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، بِطَهَارَةٍ وَاسْتِقَامَةٍ وَبَرَاءَةٍ مِنَ اللَّوْمِ، | ١٠ |
11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
| كَمَا أَنَّكُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ كَيْفَ عَامَلْنَاكُمْ مُعَامَلَةَ الأَبِ لأَوْلاَدِهِ، فَكُنَّا نَعِظُ كُلَّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْكُمْ وَنُشَجِّعُكُمْ | ١١ |
12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
| وَنُحَرِّضُكُمْ أَنْ تَسْلُكُوا سُلُوكاً يَلِيقُ بِاللهِ، ذَاكَ الَّذِي يَدْعُوكُمْ إِلَى مَلَكُوتِهِ وَمَجْدِهِ. | ١٢ |
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.
| وَلِذَلِكَ نَحْنُ أَيْضاً نَرْفَعُ الشُّكْرَ لِلهِ بِلاَ تَوَقُّفٍ، لأَنَّكُمْ لَمَّا تَلَقَّيْتُمْ مِنَّا كَلِمَةَ الْبِشَارَةِ مِنَ اللهِ، قَبِلْتُمُوهَا لاَ كَأَنَّهَا كَلِمَةُ بَشَرٍ، بَلْ كَمَا هِيَ فِي الْحَقِيقَةِ: بِاعْتِبَارِهَا كَلِمَةَ اللهِ الْعَامِلَةَ أَيْضاً فِيكُمْ أَنْتُمُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ. | ١٣ |
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
| فَإِنَّكُمْ، أَيُّهَا الإِخْوَةُ، قَدْ صِرْتُمْ عَلَى مِثَالِ كَنَائِسِ اللهِ الَّتِي فِي مِنْطَقَةِ الْيَهُودِيَّة الَّتِي هِيَ فِي الْمَسِيحِ يَسُوعَ. فَأَنْتُمْ أَيْضاً قَاسَيْتُمْ عَلَى أَيْدِي بَنِي جِنْسِكُمْ مَا قَاسَوْهُ هُمْ عَلَى أَيْدِي الْيَهُودِ | ١٤ |
15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,
| الَّذِينَ قَتَلُوا الرَّبَّ يَسُوعَ وَالأَنْبِيَاءَ وَاضْطَهَدُونَا نَحْنُ أَيْضاً، وَهُمْ لاَ يُرْضُونَ اللهَ وَيُعَادُونَ النَّاسَ جَمِيعاً، | ١٥ |
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.
| إِذْ يَمْنَعُونَنَا مِنْ تَبْشِيرِ الأُمَمِ لِيَخْلُصُوا، وَبِذَلِكَ يَسْتَكْمِلُونَ خَطَايَاهُمْ كُلَّ حِينٍ، وَلَكِنَّ الْغَضَبَ قَدْ حَلَّ عَلَيْهِمْ إِلَى الْغَايَةِ. | ١٦ |
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,
| أَمَّا نَحْنُ، أَيُّهَا الإِخْوَةُ، فَإِذْ قَدْ افْتَرَقْنَا عَنْكُمْ لِمُدَّةٍ قَصِيرَةٍ، بِالْوَجْهِ لاَ بِالْقَلْبِ، بَذَلْنَا جَهْداً أَوْفَرَ جِدّاً لِرُؤْيَةِ وُجُوهِكُمْ وَنَحْنُ فِي غَايَةِ الشَّوْقِ إِلَيْكُمْ. | ١٧ |
18 because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.
| وَلِهَذَا عَزَمْنَا أَنْ نَأْتِيَ إِلَيْكُمْ، عَلَى الأَخَصِّ أَنَا بُولُسَ مَرَّةً بَعْدَ مَرَّةٍ، فَعَاقَنَا الشَّيْطَانُ. | ١٨ |
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
| فَمَا هُوَ رَجَاؤُنَا أَوْ فَرَحُنَا أَوْ إِكْلِيلُ افْتِخَارِنَا أَمَامَ رَبِّنَا يَسُوعَ عِنْدَ عَوْدَتِهِ؟ أَلَيْسَ أَنْتُمْ؟ بَلَى، | ١٩ |
20 For you are our glory and our joy.
| لأَنَّكُمْ فَخْرُنَا وَفَرَحُنَا. | ٢٠ |
