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Paul's Ministry
For ye know yourselves, brethren, our entering in which [we had] to you, that it has not been in vain;
For ye know yourselves, brethren, our entering in which [we had] to you, that it has not been in vain;
Paul’s Ministry
For you yourselves know, brethren, that our coming to you was not in vain,
For you yourselves know, brethren, that our coming to you was not in vain,
but, having suffered before and been insulted, even as ye know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the glad tidings of God with much earnest striving.
but after we had already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the boldness in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much opposition.
For our exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile;
For our exhortation does not come from error or impurity or by way of deceit;
but even as we have been approved of God to have the glad tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proves our hearts.
but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who examines our hearts.
For we have not at any time been [among you] with flattering discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for covetousness, God [is] witness;
For we never came with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed — God is witness —
nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been a charge as Christ's apostles;
nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, even though as apostles of Christ we might have asserted our authority.
but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would cherish her own children.
But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children.
Thus, yearning over you, we had found our delight in having imparted to you not only the glad tidings of God, but our own lives also, because ye had become beloved of us.
Having so fond an affection for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us.
For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.
For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
*Ye* [are] witnesses, and God, how piously and righteously and blamelessly we have conducted ourselves with you that believe:
You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and uprightly and blamelessly we behaved toward you believers;
as ye know how, as a father his own children, we used to exhort each one of you, and comfort and testify,
just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children,
that ye should walk worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory.
so that you would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received [the] word of [the] report of God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's word, which also works in you who believe.
For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.
For *ye*, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for *ye* also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also *they* of the Jews,
For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews,
who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have driven us out by persecution, and do not please God, and [are] against all men,
who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men,
forbidding us to speak to the nations that they may be saved, that they may fill up their sins always: but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.
hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.
Paul's Longing to Visit
But we, brethren, having been bereaved of you and separated for a little moment in person, not in heart, have used more abundant diligence to see your face with much desire;
But we, brethren, having been bereaved of you and separated for a little moment in person, not in heart, have used more abundant diligence to see your face with much desire;
But we, brethren, having been taken away from you for a short while — in person, not in spirit — were all the more eager with great desire to see your face.
wherefore we have desired to come to you, even I Paul, both once and twice, and Satan has hindered us.
For we wanted to come to you — I, Paul, more than once — and yet Satan hindered us.
For what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? [are] not *ye* also before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
For who is our hope or joy or crown of exultation? Is it not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?