1 Tesalonicenses 2:10

10 Vosotros sois testigos, y Dios, de cuán santa y justa e irreprensiblemente nos condujimos con vosotros que creisteis

1 Tesalonicenses 2:10 Meaning and Commentary

1 Thessalonians 2:10

Ye are witnesses, and God also
Not so much to what goes before as to what follows after, relating to their holy walk and conversation among them, the more open part of which they were witness of; and for the more secret part God is appealed to, who is acquainted with the springs of actions, as well as with actions themselves:

how holily, and justly, and unblamably we behaved ourselves among
you that believe.
The Syriac version joins the last clause of the preceding verse with this, and reads the whole thus, "ye are witnesses, and God also, how purely and justly we preached unto you the Gospel of God, and how unblamable we were among all that believed"; referring the former part to the purity and integrity in which they preached the Gospel, and the latter to their unblemished conduct among the saints; but the whole of it refers to their conversation, which was holy, externally holy, arising from internal principles of holiness in their hearts, and free from that impurity and filthiness with which the false teachers were polluted; and confirms what is before said, that their exhortation was not of uncleanness: and it was likewise "just", they were righteous in the sight of God through the justifying righteousness of Christ, and in consequence of this lived righteously before men, and were injurious to no man's person nor property: and their conversation was also "unblamable"; not that they were, without sin, and so without blame in themselves, or without the commission of sin by them, or that they passed without censure in the world, for they went through honour and dishonour, through good report and bad report, and had all manner of evil spoken of them falsely for Christ's name's sake; but by the grace of God, they had their conversation among them that believed so, that there was nothing material to be alleged against them, or any just cause of blame to be laid either on their persons or their ministry; and which is mentioned for imitation.

1 Tesalonicenses 2:10 In-Context

8 Tan amadores de vosotros, que quisiéramos entregaros no sólo el Evangelio de Dios, sino aun nuestras propias almas; porque nos sois carísimos

9 Porque ya, hermanos, os acordáis de nuestro trabajo y fatiga; que trabajando de noche y de día por no ser gravosos a ninguno de vosotros, predicamos entre vosotros el Evangelio de Dios

10 Vosotros sois testigos, y Dios, de cuán santa y justa e irreprensiblemente nos condujimos con vosotros que creisteis

11 así como sabéis de qué modo exhortábamos y consolábamos a cada uno de vosotros, como el padre a sus hijos

12 y os encargábamos que anduvierais como es digno de Dios, que os llamó a su Reino y gloria