Sha'ul�s First Letter to the Thessalonians, Chapter 2
{2:1} For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you hasn't
been found vain, {2:2} 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. {2:3} For our exhortation is
not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception. {2:4} But even as
we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we
speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts. {2:5} For
neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you
know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness), {2:6} nor seeking
glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have
claimed authority as apostles of Messiah. {2:7} But we were gentle in
the midst of you, as when a nurse cherishes her own children. {2:8}
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. {2:9} 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 Good News of God.
{2:10} You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and
blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe. {2:11} As you
know how we exhorted, comforted, and implored everyone of you, as a
father does his own children, {2:12} to the end that you should walk
worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory. {2:13}
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. {2:14} For you, brothers, became
imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Yehudah in Messiah
Yeshua; for you also suffered the same things from your own
countrymen, even as they did from the Yehudim; {2:15} who killed both
the Lord Yeshua and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't
please God, and are contrary to all men; {2:16} forbidding us to speak
to the Goyim that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But
wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
{2:17} 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, {2:18} because we wanted to come to you -- indeed, I,
Sha'ul, once and again -- but Hasatan hindered us. {2:19} For what is
our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before our
Lord Yeshua at his coming? {2:20} For you are our glory and our joy.
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