1 弟兄们， 你们都知道， 我们进到你们那里， 并不是白费工夫的。

2 我们从前在腓立比虽然受了苦， 又被凌辱， 可是靠着我们的 神， 在强烈的反对之下， 仍然放胆向你们述说 神的福音， 这是你们知道的。

3 我们的呼吁， 不是错谬的， 不是污秽的， 也没有诡诈。

4 相反地， 神既然考验过我们， 把福音委托给我们， 我们就传讲， 不像是讨人欢心的， 而是讨那察验我们心思的 神的喜悦。

5 我们从来不说奉承的话， 这是你们知道的， 神可以作证， 我们并没有借故起贪心，

6 也没有向你们或别人求取人的荣誉。

7 我们身为基督使徒的， 虽然有权利受人尊敬， 但我们在你们中间却是谦和的， 就像母亲乳养自己的孩子。

8 我们这样疼爱你们， 不但乐意把 神的福音传给你们， 连自己的性命也乐意给你们， 因为你们是我们所爱的。

9 弟兄们， 你们应该记得我们的辛苦和劳碌； 我们把 神的福音传给你们的时候， 怎样昼夜作工， 免得你们有人受累。

10 我们对你们信的人是多么圣洁、公义、无可指摘， 这是你们和 神都可以作证的。

11 正如你们知道的， 我们是怎样好像父亲对待儿女一样对待你们各人：

12 劝勉你们， 鼓励你们， 叮嘱你们， 要你们行事为人， 配得上那召你们进入他的国和荣耀的 神。

13 我们也为这缘故不住感谢 神， 因为你们接受了我们所传的 神的道， 不认为这是人的道， 而认为这确实是 神的道。这道也运行在你们信的人里面。

14 弟兄们， 你们好像犹太地在基督耶稣里 神的众教会一样， 他们怎样遭受犹太人的迫害， 你们也照样遭受同族人的迫害。

15 这些犹太人杀了主耶稣和众先知， 又把我们赶出来。他们得不到 神的喜悦， 并且和所有的人作对，

16 阻挠我们向外族人传道， 不让他们得救， 以致恶贯满盈。 神的忿怒终必临到他们身上。

17 弟兄们， 我们被迫暂时离开你们， 不过是身体离开， 心却没有离开。我们非常渴望再见到你们。

18 因此， 我们很想到你们那里去， 我保罗也一再想去， 只是撒但阻挡了我们。

19 我们主耶稣再来的时候， 我们在他面前的盼望、喜乐或所夸耀的冠冕是什么呢？不就是你们吗？

20 是的， 你们就是我们的荣耀， 我们的喜乐。

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.