Oct. 25
1 Thessalonians 2
1Th 2:1 For you
yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn't in vain,
1Th 2:2 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.
1Th 2:3 For our
exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
1Th 2:4 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.
1Th 2:5 For neither
were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a
cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
1Th 2:6 nor seeking
glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might
have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
1Th 2:7 But we were
gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
1Th 2:8 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.
1Th 2:9 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.
1Th 2:10 You are
witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved
ourselves toward you who believe.
1Th 2:11 As you know,
we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father
does his own children,
1Th 2:12 to the end
that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own
Kingdom and glory.
1Th 2:13 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, the word of God, which also works in you
who believe.
1Th 2:14 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;
1Th 2:15 who killed
both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and
didn't please God, and are contrary to all men;
1Th 2:16 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.
1Th 2:17 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,
1Th 2:18 because we
wanted to come to you--indeed, I, Paul, once and again--but Satan
hindered us.
1Th 2:19 For what is
our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before
our Lord Jesus at his coming?
1Th 2:20 For you are
our glory and our joy.