1 Thessalonians 2
1 And ye yourselves, my brethren, know our entrance among you, that it was not in vain:
For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you was not in vain,
2 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.
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 our exhortation proceeded not from deceit, nor from impurity, nor in guile:
For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
4 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.
But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing people, but God, who tests our hearts.
5 For at no time have we used flattering speech; as ye know; nor a cloak of cupidity, God is witness.
For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed (God is witness),
6 Neither have we sought glory from men, either from you or from others, when we might have been chargeable as legates of the Messiah.
nor seeking glory from people (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as emissaries of Messiah.
7 But we were lowly among you; and like a nurse, who fondleth her children,
But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
8 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.
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 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.
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 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:
You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
11 as yourselves know, we entreated each one of you, as a father his children, and comforted your hearts:
As you know, as a father with his own children,
12 and we charged you, to walk as it becometh God, who hath called you to his kingdom and his glory.
we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you to lead a life worthy of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
13 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.
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 a human word, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
14 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,
For you, brothers, became imitators of the congregations 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 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;
who killed both the Lord Yeshua and the prophets, and drove us out, and did not please God, and are hostile to all people;
16 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.
forbidding us to speak to those who are not Jewish that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
17 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.
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 And we purposed to come to you, I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered me.
because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.
19 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?
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you, before our Lord Yeshua at his coming?
20 For ye are our glory, and our joy.
For you are our glory and our joy.
