King James Version1 Thessalonians2

1 Thessalonians

1 For your­selves, brethren, know our en­trance in unto you, that it was not in vain: 2 But even af­ter that we had suf­fered be­fore, and were shame­ful­ly en­treat­ed, as ye know, at Philip­pi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much con­tention. 3 For our ex­hor­ta­tion was not of de­ceit, nor of un­clean­ness, nor in guile: 4 But as we were al­lowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleas­ing men, but God, which tri­eth our hearts. 5 For nei­ther at any time used we flat­ter­ing words, as ye know, nor a cloke of cov­etous­ness; God is wit­ness: 6 Nor of men sought we glo­ry, nei­ther of you, nor yet of oth­ers, when we might have been bur­den­some, as the apos­tles of Christ. 7 But we were gen­tle among you, even as a nurse cher­isheth her chil­dren: 8 So be­ing af­fec­tion­ate­ly de­sirous of you, we were will­ing to have im­part­ed unto you, not the gospel of God on­ly, but also our own souls, be­cause ye were dear unto us. 9 For ye re­mem­ber, brethren, our labour and tra­vail: for labour­ing night and day, be­cause we would not be charge­able unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. 10 Ye are wit­ness­es, and God also, how ho­lily and just­ly and un­blame­ably we be­haved our­selves among you that be­lieve: 11 As ye know how we ex­hort­ed and com­fort­ed and charged ev­ery one of you, as a fa­ther doth his chil­dren, 12 That ye would walk wor­thy of God, who hath called you unto his king­dom and glo­ry. 13 For this cause also thank we God with­out ceas­ing, be­cause, when ye re­ceived the word of God which ye heard of us, ye re­ceived it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which ef­fec­tu­al­ly wor­keth also in you that be­lieve. 14 For ye, brethren, be­came fol­low­ers of the church­es of God which in Ju­daea are in Christ Je­sus: for ye also have suf­fered like things of your own coun­try­men, even as they have of the Jews: 15 Who both killed the Lord Je­sus, and their own prophets, and have per­se­cut­ed us; and they please not God, and are con­trary to all men: 16 For­bid­ding us to speak to the Gen­tiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins al­way: for the wrath is come upon them to the ut­ter­most. 17 But we, brethren, be­ing tak­en from you for a short time in pres­ence, not in heart, en­deav­oured the more abun­dant­ly to see your face with great de­sire. 18 Where­fore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Sa­tan hin­dered us. 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of re­joic­ing? Are not even ye in the pres­ence of our Lord Je­sus Christ at his com­ing? 20 For ye are our glo­ry and joy.