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1 Thessalonians 2

Good News Translation GNT

1 Our friends, you yourselves know that our visit to you was not a failure.

2 You know how we had already been mistreated and insulted in Philippi before we came to you in Thessalonica. And even though there was much opposition, our God gave us courage to tell you the Good News that comes from him.

3 Our appeal to you is not based on error or impure motives, nor do we try to trick anyone.

4 Instead, we always speak as God wants us to, because he has judged us worthy to be entrusted with the Good News. We do not try to please people, but to please God, who tests our motives.

5 You know very well that we did not come to you with flattering talk, nor did we use words to cover up greed - God is our witness!

6 We did not try to get praise from anyone, either from you or from others,

7 even though as apostles of Christ we could have made demands on you. But we were gentle when we were with you, like a mother taking care of her children.

8 Because of our love for you we were ready to share with you not only the Good News from God but even our own lives. You were so dear to us!

9 Surely you remember, our friends, how we worked and toiled! We worked day and night so that we would not be any trouble to you as we preached to you the Good News from God.

10 You are our witnesses, and so is God, that our conduct toward you who believe was pure, right, and without fault.

11 You know that we treated each one of you just as parents treat their own children.

12 We encouraged you, we comforted you, and we kept urging you to live the kind of life that pleases God, who calls you to share in his own Kingdom and glory.

13 And there is another reason why we always give thanks to God. When we brought you God's message, you heard it and accepted it, not as a message from human beings but as God's message, which indeed it is. For God is at work in you who believe.

14 Our friends, the same things happened to you that happened to the churches of God in Judea, to the people there who belong to Christ Jesus. You suffered the same persecutions from your own people that they suffered from the Jews,

15 who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us. How displeasing they are to God! How hostile they are to everyone!

16 They even tried to stop us from preaching to the Gentiles the message that would bring them salvation. In this way they have brought to completion all the sins they have always committed. And now God's anger has at last come down on them!

17 As for us, friends, when we were separated from you for a little while - not in our thoughts, of course, but only in body - how we missed you and how hard we tried to see you again!

18 We wanted to return to you. I myself tried to go back more than once, but Satan would not let us.

19 After all, it is you - you, no less than others! - who are our hope, our joy, and our reason for boasting of our victory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes.

20 Indeed, you are our pride and our joy!

World English Bible WEB

1 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you hasn't been found 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 gospel of God in much conflict.

3 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 pleasing men, but God, who tests 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),

6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

7 But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherishes her own children.

8 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to 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 gospel of God.

10 You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

11 As you know how we exhorted, comforted, and implored everyone of you, as a father does his own children,

12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own 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, the word of God, which also works in you who 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;

15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are 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.

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,

18 because we wanted to come to you -- indeed, 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?

20 For you are our glory and our joy.