Jubilee Bible 2000 JUB
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1 For <em>you</em> yourselves, brethren, know that our entrance unto you was not vain,
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You know, brothers and sisters, that our visit to you was not without results.
2 but having suffered before and having been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to announce unto you the gospel of God with much diligence.
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We had previously suffered and been treated outrageously in Philippi, as you know, but with the help of our God we dared to tell you his gospel in the face of strong opposition.
3 For our exhortation <em>was</em> not of error nor of uncleanness nor in guile,
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For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives, nor are we trying to trick you.
4 but because we have been approved of God that he might entrust us with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.
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On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel. We are not trying to please people but God, who tests our hearts.
5 For we were never flatterers in the word, as ye know, nor tainted with covetousness, God <em>is</em> witness,
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You know we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover up greed—God is our witness.
6 nor did we seek glory of men neither of you nor <em>yet</em> of others, when we might have been burdensome unto you as the apostles of Christ.
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We were not looking for praise from people, not from you or anyone else, even though as apostles of Christ we could have asserted our authority.
7 But we were gentle among you, as a mother feeding and caring for her children,
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Instead, we were like young children among you. Just as a nursing mother cares for her children,
8 loving you so much, that we were willing to give unto you, not only the gospel of God, but even our own souls, because ye are dear unto us.
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so we cared for you. Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well.
9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for labouring night and day, not to be a burden unto any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.
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Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you.
10 Ye <em>are</em> witnesses, and God <em>also</em>, of how holy and just and irreprehensible our behaviour was among you that believe,
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You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless we were among you who believed.
11 as ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father <em>with</em> his children,
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For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children,
12 that ye would walk worthy of God, who has called you unto his kingdom and glory.
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encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.
13 For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, that having received from us the word to hear from God, ye received <em>it</em> not <em>as</em> the word of men, (but as it is in truth) the word of God, which effectually works in you that believe.
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And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe.
14 For ye, brethren, have been imitators in Christ Jesus of the <em>congregations</em> {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of God which are in Judaea, for ye also have suffered like things of your own nation, even as they <em>have</em> of the Jews,
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For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews
15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and have persecuted us, and they do not please God and are contrary to all men,
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who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone
16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up <em>the measure of</em> their sins always, for the wrath <em>of God</em> has come upon them to the uttermost.
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in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit. The wrath of God has come upon them at last.
17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly with great desire to see your face.
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But, brothers and sisters, when we were orphaned by being separated from you for a short time (in person, not in thought), out of our intense longing we made every effort to see you.
18 Therefore we would have come unto you, even I, Paul, once and again, but Satan hindered us.
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For we wanted to come to you—certainly I, Paul, did, again and again—but Satan blocked our way.
19 For what is our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing? <em>Is it</em> not you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
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For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not you?
20 For ye are our glory and joy.
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Indeed, you are our glory and joy.
The Jubilee Bible (from the Scriptures of the Reformation), edited by Russell M. Stendal, Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2010
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