1 Thessalonians 2
1 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,
For ye yourselves, 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 though we had suffered before and been injuriously treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we spake boldly in the name of our God to declare unto you the gospel of God with much conflict.
3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of 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 have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth 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 neither at any time used we flattering speech, as ye know, nor covetous pretence, 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.
nor sought we glory of men, neither of you, nor of others: though we might have expected maintenance, as the apostles of Christ.
7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth 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, being affectionately desirous of you, were willing to impart to you, not only the gospel of God, but even our own souls, because ye were dear unto 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 remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for working night and day, that we might not be burthensome to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.
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 holily, and justly, and unblameably we behaved towards you that believe:
11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
as ye know likewise, how we exhorted and comforted every one of you, as a father his children;
12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
and charged you, that ye should walk worthy of God, who hath called you to his kingdom and 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.
For this also we thank God continually, that when ye received the word of God, which ye heard from us, ye received it not as the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the word of God, which also worketh effectually in you 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, brethren, became followers of the churches of God, which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus, in that ye also have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they have from the Jews:
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,
who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; who are displeasing to God, and contrary 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.
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, thus going on to fill up their sins perpetually: but wrath is coming upon them to extremity.
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, brethren, being separated from you for a season, in person not in heart, endeavoured the more earnestly to see you again with much desire.
18 because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.
Wherefore we would have come unto you (even I Paul) once and again; but Satan hindered us.
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? are not ye also among others in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
20 For you are our glory and our joy.
for ye are our glory and our joy.
