1 Tessalonicenses 2

1 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain, 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. 3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception. 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. 5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness), 6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ. 7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

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. 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. 10 You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe. 11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children, 12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

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, God’s word, which also works in you who believe. 14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please 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 wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

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, 18 because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us. 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus*2:19 TR adds "Christ" at his coming? 20 For you are our glory and our joy.

Te Mahi a Pāora i Teharonika

1 E mātau ana hoki koutou, e ōku tēina, ki tō mātou haerenga atu ki a koutou, ehara i te mea i kore tikanga; 2 heoi mate ana mātou i mua rā, tūkinotia ana i Piripai, e mātau nā koutou, otirā, māia tonu mātou i roto i tō tātou Atua ki te kōrero i te rongopai o te Atua ki a koutou i roto i te uaua nui. 3 Ko tā mātou whakahauhau nā hoki, ehara i te mea nā te tinihanga, nā te poke rānei, ehara anō hoki i te mea hangareka. 4 Engari, ka pai nei te Atua kia tukua ki a mātou te rongopai, ka pērā tā mātou kōrero; ehara i te mea kia whakamānawarekatia te tāngata, engari te Atua, e whakamātautau nei i ō tātou ngākau. 5 Kāhore hoki mātou i kitea e kōrero ana i te kupu whakapati, e mātau nā anō hoki koutou, e huna ana rānei i te ngākau apo; ko te Atua te kaititiro mai. 6 Kīhai anō mātou i rapu korōria i te tangata, i a koutou rānei, i ērā atu rānei, ahakoa i tika mātou, he āpōtoro nei nā te Karaiti, kia mea he tangata whai tikanga mātou. 7 Engari i ngāwari mātou i waenganui i a koutou, i rite ki te kaiatawhai e whakaahuru ana i āna tamariki ake. 8 Pērā tonu tō mātou matenui ki a koutou, ehara i te mea ko te rongopai anake o te Atua tā mātou i pai ai kia hoatu ki a koutou, engari ko ō mātou ake wairua, i te mea kua aroha nui mātou ki a koutou. 9 E mahara ana hoki koutou, e ōku tēina, ki tā mātou mahi, ki tō mātou māuiui; mahi ana mātou i te pō, i te ao, kei taimaha ki tētahi o koutou, kauwhautia ana hoki e mātou te rongopai o te Atua ki a koutou.

10 Ko koutou ngā kaititiro, ko te Atua hoki, ki te tapu, ki te tika, ki te kore hē o tā mātou whakahaere ki a koutou e whakapono nā. 11 Ā, e mātau ana anō koutou ki tā mātou mahi ki tētahi, ki tētahi o koutou, pērā i tā te matua ki āna tamariki ake, te whakahauhau, te whakahihiri i a koutou, te tohutohu, 12 mō tā koutou haere kia rite ki tā te Atua, nāna nei koutou i karanga ki tōna rangatiratanga, ki tōna korōria.

13 Mō konei mātou ka whakawhetai tonu nei ki te Atua, nō te mea i tō koutou tahuritanga ki te kupu a te Atua i rongo rā koutou ki a mātou, ehara i te mea he tahuri nō koutou ki te kupu tangata, engari ki te kupu a te Atua, ko ia pū nā hoki ia e mahi nā i roto i a koutou, i te hunga e whakapono nā. 14 Kua whai nā hoki koutou, e ōku tēina, i te tauira a ngā hāhi a te Atua i Hūria i roto i a Karaiti Īhu. Ko ō koutou matenga hoki i ngā tāngata o tō koutou ake iwi kua rite ki o ērā matenga i ngā Hūrai. 15 Nā rātou hoki i whakamate te Ariki, a Īhu, me ngā poropiti, ā, i panā mātou ki waho; kāhore ā rātou whakamānawareka ki te Atua, ā, he hoariri rātou nō ngā tāngata katoa. 16 E ārai mai ana i a mātou kei kōrero ki ngā tauiwi kia ora ai, he mea tēnei e tutuki ai ō rātou hara i ngā wā katoa; otirā, ka whakapaua rawatia te riri ki a rātou.

Te Hiahia o Pāora ki te Toro anō ki a Rātou

17 Ko mātou ia, e ōku tēina, he iti nei te wāhi kua wehea mai nei mātou i a koutou, ko ngā tinana, kāhore te ngākau, hira rawa tō mātou tākare kia kite i tō koutou kanohi, nui atu te hiahia. 18 Nō reira, i te whai kia tae atu ki a koutou, ko ahau, ko Pāora, i tuatahi, ā, i tuarua; heoi, nā Hātana mātou i whakaware. 19 He aha hoki tā mātou e tūmanako atu ai, e hari ai, he aha oti te karauna e whakamanamana ai mātou? He teka ianei ko koutou i te aroaro o tō tātou Ariki, o Īhu Karaiti, ā tōna taenga mai? 20 Ko koutou hoki tō mātou korōria, tō mātou hari.