1 For ye yourselves know, brothers, our entrance with you, that it has not become empty.
2 But having suffered before and been mistreated in Philippi, as ye know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the good-news of God within much conflict.
3 For our exhortation is not from error, nor from uncleanness, nor in deception,
4 but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good-news, thus we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who proves our hearts.
5 For we came neither in word of flattery (at any time as ye know) nor a pretense of greed (God is witness)
6 nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others. While able to bear down as apostles of Christ,
7 nevertheless we became gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherishes her own children.
8 Thus being desirous of you, we were pleased to impart to you, not only the good-news of God, but also our own souls, because ye have become beloved to us.
9 For ye remember, brothers, our labor and the hardship. For, laboring night and day in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the good-news of God.
10 Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and justly and blamelessly we became to you who believe,
11 just as ye know, as each one of you as a father of his own children, imploring you, and comforting,
12 and solemnly declaring for you to walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.
13 And because of this we thank God without ceasing, because, having received the word of God heard from us, ye received not the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.
14 For ye, brothers, became imitators of the congregations of God, which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because ye also suffered the same things by your own countrymen, just as also they by the Jews.
15 The men who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and who persecuted us, and are not pleasing to God, and are contrary to all men.
16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles so that they might be saved, in order to fill up their sins always. But wrath came upon them finally.
17 But we, brothers, who were orphaned from you for the time of an hour, in presence not in heart, hastened more earnestly to see your face, with much desire.
18 Therefore we wanted to come to you, indeed I, Paul, even once and again, and Satan hindered us.
19 For what is our hope or joy or crown of boast? Or is it not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
20 For ye are our glory and joy.
1 For ye youre selves knowe brethren of oure entraunce in vnto you howe that it was not in vayne:
2 but even after that we had suffered before and were shamfully entreated at Phillippos (as ye well knowe) then were we bolde in oure God to speake vnto you the gospell of God with moche strivynge.
3 Oure exhortacion was not to brynge you to erroure nor yet to vnclennes nether was it with gyle:
4 but as we were alowed of God that the gospell shuld be comitted vnto vs: even so we speake not as though we entended to please men but God which trieth oure hertes.
5 Nether was oure conversacion at eny tyme wt flatterynge wordes as ye well knowe nether in cloked coveteousnes God is recorde:
6 nether sought we prayse of men nether of you nor yet of eny other when we myght have bene chargeable as the apostles of Christ
7 but we were tender amonge you even as a norsse cheressheth her children
8 so was oure affeccion towarde you oure good will was to have dealte vnto you not the gospell of God only: but also oure awne soules because ye were deare vnto vs.
9 Ye remember brethre oure laboure and travayle. For we laboured daye and nyght because we wolde not be greveous vnto eny of you and preached vnto you ye gospell of God.
10 Ye are witnesses and so is god how holyly and iustly and vnblameable we behaved oure selves amonge you that beleve:
11 as ye knowe how that we exhorted and comforted and besought every one of you as a father his childre
12 that ye wolde walke worthy of God which hath called you vnto his kyngdome and glory.
13 For this cause thanke we god with out ceasynge because that when ye receaved of vs the worde wherwith God was preached ye receaved it not as the worde of man: but even as it was in dede the worde of God which worketh in you that beleve.
14 For ye brethre became folowers of the congregacions of god which in Iewry are in Christ Iesu: for ye have suffered lyke thynges of youre kynsmen as we oure selves have suffered of the Iewes.
15 Which as they kylled the lorde Iesus and their awne prophetes even so have they persecuted vs and God they please not and are contrary to all men
16 and forbid vs to preache vnto the gentyls that they myght be saved to fulfill their synnes all waye. For the wrath of God is come on them even to the vtmost.
17 For as moch brethren as we are kept from you for a season as concernynge the bodyly presence but not in the herte we enforsed the more to se you personally with great desire.
18 And therfore we wolde have come vnto you I paul once and agayne: but Satan with stode vs.
19 For what is oure hope or ioye or croune of reioysynge? are not ye it in the presence of oure lorde Iesus Christ at his comynge?
20 yes ye are oure glory and ioye.