¹For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it hath not been found vain:

¹Unaute aw, na lak ua, ka lutna uh ana thawnta kei chih noumau mahin na thei ngal ua;

²but 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.

²A thawn hih naksangin, huai malamin, na theihsa bangun, Philippi khua ah gimthuak leh zumhuai taka bawla ka om nungun, dalna thupitak lakah leng Pathian tanchin hoih na kiang ua gen dingin ka Pathian uah hangsanna ka nei jaw uhi.

³For our exhortation [is] not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

³Ka thugen uh juaua pawt ahi ngal keia, sianlouhnaa suak leng ahi keia, zekhemnain leng ahi sam keia;

⁴but 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.

⁴Tanchin hoih kepsaka om dinga Pathian hoihsak mi ka hih bang ngei un, mihing hihkipak ding bang hiloua ka lungtang uh zeetpa Pathian hih kipak jawin, thu ka gen jel uh ahi jaw hi.

⁵For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;

⁵Chiklai peuh inleng kimaitang phatna thu hiam, huaiham khuhmangna ding thu hiam ka zong ngei kei uh chih na thei uh; Pathian hontheihpihpa ahi.

⁶nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

⁶Kris sawltak ka hih jiakun mi adingin chimtakhuaipi hi thei mah le ung, mihing lakah-nou lakah leh midangte lakah leng, pahtawina ka zong ngei sam kei uhi.

⁷But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:

⁷Nu naupom, amah tate hawmthoh taka kem bangin, na lakuah nunnem takin ka om jaw uhi.

⁸even 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.

⁸Huchiin, ittaka nou kon lunggulh tuntun jiakun, Pathian tanchin hoih kia hilou-in, koumau hinna leng honpiak hial ka ut mahmah uhi.

⁹For 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.

⁹Unaute aw, ka sep tawl dan u leh ka sepgim dan uh na theigige uhi; na lak uah kuamah ka suktuailuai louhna ding un, sun leh jana nasemin, Pathian tanchinhoih nou ka honhilh uhi.

¹⁰Ye are witnesses, and God [also], how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe:

¹⁰Nou gingtate tunga siangthou tak leh diktak leh dembeia ka omdan uh a hontheihpihte na hi uhi, huan, Pathian leng.

¹¹as ye know how we [dealt with] each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging [you], and testifying,

¹¹Na theih mah bangun, Pain amah tate tunga ahih banga hasuan leh khamuanin nou kontheisak uh,

¹²to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.

¹²Amah gam leh thupinaa nou honsamlutpa Pathian mi hi dia kilawmhima na hin theihna dingun.

¹³And 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.

¹³Hiai jiakin tawp louin Pathian kiangah kipahthu ka gengen uhi, Pathian thu koumau akipana na muh uh, na san lai un leng, mihing thu sang bangin na sang kei ua; Pathian thu ahihna bangtaka na san jawk jiak un; huai tuh Pthiana ahi hima, gingta mi noumau sunga sem jel mah ahi.

¹⁴For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;

¹⁴Nou, unaute aw, Juda gama Pathian saptuam pawl Kris Jesua omte juite na nahi ua, amau tuh Judate laka thuak bang un, nou leng noumau gam mite lakah na thuak sam ngal ua.

¹⁵who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men;

¹⁵Huai Judaten tuh Toupa Jesu leh jawlneite leng a that ua, kou leng a hondelh khia ua, Pathian a sulungkim kei ua, mi tengteng a kalh nak uhi;

¹⁶forbidding 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.

¹⁶Hotdam a hih theihna ding ua Jentelte kiang a thugen a honkham ua, a khelhna uh hih dim gige dingin; himahleh, thangpaihna tuh a khawk theihtawpin a tunguah a hontungta hi.

¹⁷But 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:

¹⁷Ahihhangin, unaute aw, sawtlou kala dia noumau toh lungtang lama kikhen loua, pumpi lam kiaa kikhena i om takdih jiakin, kilawp taka na mel uh mu dingin ka pang sansan uhi.

¹⁸because we would fain have come unto you, I Paul once and again; and Satan hindered us.

¹⁸Na kiang ua hongpai ka tum chiltel ngal ua. Kei Paula ngei inleng nihvei tak hongpai ka natuma, himahleh Setanin a hondal nak ahi.

¹⁹For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

¹⁹Ka lametna u hiam, ka kipahna u hiam, ka lallukhu suan u hiam bang ahia leh? A hongpai chiangin i Toupa Jesu maah noumau mah na hi kei ding ua hia?Nou khawngmah ka suan uh leh ka kipahna uh na hi uhi.

²⁰For ye are our glory and our joy.

²⁰Nou khawngmah ka suan uh leh ka kipahna uh na hi uhi.