1 Thessalonians 2
1 You yourselves for know, brothers, the coming of us to you that not in vain has been;
For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,
2 but (and *k) having previously suffered and having been mistreated even as you know, in Philippi, we had boldness in the God of us to speak to you the gospel of God amid much conflict.
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.
3 For the exhortation of us [is] not of error nor of impurity (nor *N+kO) in trickery;
For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
4 but even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as men pleasing but as God who is examining the hearts of us.
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.
5 Never for at any time with word of flattery were we, even as you know, nor with a pretext for greed — God [is] witness —
For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
6 nor seeking from men glory nor from you nor from others, [though] having authority with weight to be as Christ’s apostles;
nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as emissaries of Messiah.
7 But we were (infants *N+KO) in [the] midst of you, as (maybe *N+kO) a nursing mother shall cherish her own children,
But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
8 So (yearning for *N+kO) you we were pleased to have imparted to you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because beloved to us (you have become. *N+kO)
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.
9 You remember for, brothers, the labor of us and hardship: By night (for *k) and day working in order not to burden anyone of you we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
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.
10 You [are] witnesses and God, how holily and righteously and blamelessly toward you those believing we were,
You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
11 just as you know how one each of you as a father children of himself exhorting you and comforting and (charging *N+kO)
As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
12 unto (to walk *N+kO) you worthily of God who is calling you to the His own kingdom and glory.
to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
13 (And *no) because of this also we ourselves give thanks to God unceasingly that having received [the] word [by your] hearing from us of God you accepted not [the] word of men but even as it is truly [the] word of God, which also works in you who believe.
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.
14 you yourselves for imitators became, brothers, of the churches of God which are being in Judea in Christ Jesus, For (the [same] *N+KO) (these *N+kO) suffered also you yourselves from [your] own countrymen, even as also [did] they from the Jews,
For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Messiah Yeshua; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Judeans
15 who both the Lord having killed Jesus and ([their] own *K) prophets and (us *NK+O) having driven out and God not pleasing and to all men opposed,
who killed both the Lord Yeshua and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,
16 they are hindering us to the Gentiles to speak that they may be saved, so as to fill up their sins always; Has come now upon them the wrath (of the God *O) to the utmost.
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.
17 We ourselves however, brothers, having been bereaved of you for [the] time of an hour in face not in heart, more abundantly were eager the face of you to see with great desire.
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,
18 (therefore *N+kO) we wanted to come to you — I myself indeed Paul both once and twice — and hindered us Satan.
because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.
19 Who [is] for our hope or joy or crown of boasting? Except only even you before the Lord of us Jesus (Christ *K) at His coming?
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Yeshua at his coming?
20 You yourselves for are the glory of us and joy.
For you are our glory and our joy.
