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| | The Weymouth New Testament Online Bible (WEY) | The American Standard Version Online Bible (ASV) |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:1 | For you yourselves, brethren, know that our visit to you did not fail of its purpose. | For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it hath not been found vain: |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:2 | But, as you will remember, after we had already met with suffering and outrage at Philippi, we summoned up boldness, by the help of our God, to tell you God's Good News amid much opposition. | but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:3 | For our preaching was not grounded on a delusion, nor prompted by mingled motives, nor was there fraud in it. | For our exhortation [is] not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:4 | But as God tested and approved us before entrusting us with His Good News, so in what we say we are seeking not to please men but to please God, who tests and approves our motives. | but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:5 | For, as you are well aware, we have never used the language of flattery nor have we found pretexts for enriching ourselves God is our witness; | For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness; |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:6 | nor did we seek glory either from you or from any other mere men, although we might have stood on our dignity as Christ's Apostles. | nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:7 | On the contrary, in our relations to you we showed ourselves as gentle as a mother is when she tenderly nurses her own children. | But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children: |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:8 | Seeing that we were thus drawn affectionately towards you, it would have been a joy to us to have imparted to you not only God's Good News, but to have given our very lives also, because you had become very dear to us. | even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:9 | For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: how, working night and day so as not to become a burden to any one of you, we came and proclaimed among you God's Good News. | For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:10 | You yourselves are witnesses and God is witness how holy and upright and blameless our dealings with you believers were. | Ye are witnesses, and God [also], how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe: |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:11 | For you know that we acted towards every one of you as a father does towards his own children, encouraging and cheering you, | as ye know how we [dealt with] each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging [you], and testifying, |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:12 | and imploring you to live lives worthy of fellowship with God who is inviting you to share His own Kingship and glory. | to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:13 | And for this further reason we render unceasing thanks to God, that when you received God's Message from our lips, it was as no mere message from men that you embraced it, but as what it really is God's Message, which also does its work in the hearts of you who believe. | And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, [even the word] of God, ye accepted [it] not [as] the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:14 | For you, brethren, followed the example of the Churches of God in Christ Jesus which are in Judaea; seeing that you endured the same ill-treatment at the hands of your countrymen, as they did at the hands of the Jews. | For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews; |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:15 | Those Jewish persecutors killed both the Lord Jesus and the Prophets, and drove us out of their midst. They are displeasing to God, and are the enemies of all mankind; | who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men; |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:16 | for they still try to prevent our preaching to the Gentiles so that they may find salvation. They thus continually fill up the measure of their own sins, and God's anger in its severest form has overtaken them. | forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:17 | But we, brethren, having been for a short time separated from you in bodily presence, though not in heart, endeavoured all the more earnestly, with intense longing, to see you face to face. | But we, brethren, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face with great desire: |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:18 | On this account we wanted to come to you at least I Paul wanted again and again to do so but Satan hindered us. | because we would fain have come unto you, I Paul once and again; and Satan hindered us. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:19 | For what is our hope or joy, or the crown of which we boast? Is it not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His Coming? | For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming? |
| 1st-Thessalonians 2:20 | Yes, you are our glory and our joy. | For ye are our glory and our joy. |
| | The Weymouth New Testament Online Bible (WEY) | The American Standard Version Online Bible (ASV) |
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