1 Julle weet tog self, broeders, dat ons ingang by julle nie tevergeefs was nie;

2 maar alhoewel ons vantevore, soos julle weet, in Fil¡ppi gely het en mishandel is, het ons in onse God vrymoedigheid gehad om aan julle die evangelie van God te verkondig onder veel stryd.

3 Want ons vermaning was nie uit dwaling of uit onsuiwerheid of uit bedrog nie;

4 maar soos ons deur God waardig geag is dat die evangelie aan ons toevertrou sou word, so spreek ons, nie om mense te behaag nie, maar God wat ons harte beproef.

5 Want ons het, soos julle weet, ons nooit met vleitaal opgehou of met bedekte hebsug nie. God is getuie.

6 Ook het ons nie eer van mense, •f van julle •f van ander gesoek nie, al kon ons as apostels van Christus met gesag optree.

7 Maar ons was vriendelik onder julle soos 'n pleegmoeder haar kinders koester.

8 Terwyl ons so na julle verlang het, was dit ons aangenaam om aan julle nie alleen die evangelie van God mee te deel nie, maar ook ons eie lewe, omdat julle vir ons dierbaar geword het.

9 Julle onthou tog, broeders, ons arbeid en inspanning; want terwyl ons nag en dag gewerk het om niemand van julle te beswaar nie, het ons die evangelie van God aan julle verkondig.

10 Julle is getuies, en God, hoe heilig en regverdig en onberispelik ons ons gedra het teenoor julle wat glo,

11 hoe ons, soos julle weet, net soos 'n vader sy kinders, elkeen van julle vermaan en bemoedig het

12 en betuig het dat julle waardiglik moet wandel voor God wat julle tot sy koninkryk en heerlikheid roep.

13 Daarom dank ons God ook sonder ophou dat, toe julle die woord van God ontvang het wat deur ons verkondig is, julle dit aangeneem het nie as die woord van mense nie, maar, soos dit waarlik is, as die woord van God wat ook werk in julle wat glo.

14 Want julle, broeders, het navolgers geword van die gemeentes van God wat in Christus Jesus is in Jud,a, omdat julle ook dieselfde dinge gely het van julle eie stamgenote net soos hulle van die Jode,

15 wat ook die Here Jesus en hulle eie profete gedood en ons vervolg het en God nie behaag nie en teen alle mense gekant is,

16 deurdat hulle ons verhinder om tot die heidene te spreek dat hulle gered kan word, sodat hulle die maat van hulle sondes gedurig vol kan maak. Maar die toorn het oor hulle gekom tot die einde toe.

17 Maar nadat ons, broeders, 'n kort tydjie van julle geskeie was -- in persoon, nie met die hart nie -- het ons met groot verlange ons des te meer beywer om julle aangesig te sien.

18 Daarom wou ons na julle toe kom, ek Paulus, meer as een maal; maar die Satan het ons verhinder.

19 Want wie anders as julle is ons hoop of blydskap of kroon van roem in die teenwoordigheid van onse Here Jesus Christus by sy wederkoms?

20 Want julle is ons eer en blydskap.

1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it hath not been found vain: 2 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. 3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: 4 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. 5 For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness; 6 nor seeking glory of 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 cherisheth her own children: 8 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. 9 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. 10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and righteously and unblamably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe: 11 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, 12 to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.

13 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. 14 For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judæa in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews; 15 who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and please not 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 the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

17 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: 18 because we would fain have come unto you, I Paul once and again; and Satan hindered us. 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming? 20 For ye are our glory and our joy.