¹Ni'inca moto ompi' uma-wakai lenge' mara mpokeni Kareba Lompe' hi koi'.

¹For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,

²Kako'ia-kai rata hi ngata-ni retu, rabalinai' pai' raruge' -kai hi ngata Filipi-- ni'inca moto-mi tutura-na ompi'. Aga nau' wori' to mpo'ewa-kai, Alata'ala mporohoi nono-kai bona bia' -kai mpoparata Kareba Lompe' to ngkai Alata'ala hi koi' wo'o.

²but 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.

³Uma kibawai-koi mpotuku' tudui' to uma makono. Uma wo'o ria patuju nono-kai to dada'a, uma-kai doko' mpobagiu ba hema-hema.

³For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

⁴Uma wo'o-kai mololita mpakagoe' nono manusia' -wadi. Mololita-kai bona mpakagoe' nono Alata'ala, apa' Hi'a-mi to mpoparesa' nono-kai, pai' na'uli' kanatao-kai mpokeni Kareba Lompe' toe.

⁴But 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.

⁵Ni'inca moto ompi', uma-kai ria mololita mpolinuruhi-koi, uma-kai mpolerui patuju to dada'a doko' mporata ba napa-napa ngkai koi'. Alata'ala moto sabi' -kai!

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

⁶Uma wo'o-kai mpope'une' hi koi' ba hi tau ntani' -na. Kakoo-kono-na, uma-kai sala' mperapii' -koi ompi', apa' suro-na Kristus mpu'u-kai.

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

⁷Aga uma kibabehi hewa toe. Bula-kai retu-pidi wengi, mo'alusu' po'ingku-kai, hewa hadua totina mpewili' ana' -na.

⁷But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

⁸Kiparata-kokoi Kareba Lompe' ngkai Alata'ala. Pai' meliu ngkai toe, ba tuwu' ba mate-kai, bate sadia-kai mpotulungi-koi, apa' kipoka'ahi' lia-koi.

⁸Even 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.

⁹Tantu nikiwoi moto ompi' kamowewa-kai wengi mobago, hinamengi hina'eo-kai mpali' pongkoni' -kai, bona neo' -kai mposesei' -koi bula-kai mpotudui' -koi Kareba Lompe' to ngkai Alata'ala.

⁹For 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.

¹⁰Ni'inca moto kamoroli' po'ingku-kai wengi hi koi' to mepangala' -mi hi Pue' Yesus. Monoa' po'ingku-kai, uma ria kasalaia' -na. Koi' -mi sabi' -kai ompi', hante Alata'ala wo'o.

¹⁰You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

¹¹Ni'inca moto pepewili' -kai hi koi' butu dua-ni, hewa hadua tuama mpewili' ana' -ana' -na. Kirohoi pai' ki'apui nono-ni,

¹¹As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

¹²pai' kiparesai' mpu'u-koi bona po'ingku-ni masipato' hi ntodea-na Alata'ala. Apa' Alata'ala mpokio' -koi jadi' ntodea-na hi rala Kamagaua' -na bona mporata-koi bagia hi rala kabohe tuwu' -na.

¹²to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

¹³Ria-pi hanyala to mpakeni-kai mpo'uli' tarima kasi oa' hi Alata'ala. Apa' kareba to ni'epe ngkai kai' nitarima hewa Lolita Alata'ala mpu'u, uma nitarima hewa lolita manusia' -wadi. Pai' bate wae mpu'u, kareba toe bate Lolita Alata'ala to mobago ncuu hi rala nono-ni to mepangala' hi Pue'.

¹³For 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.

¹⁴Ki'inca toe ompi', apa' napa to jadi' hi to Kristen hi tana' Yudea to mepue' hi Alata'ala, wae wo'o to jadi' hi koi'. Koi' rabalinai' hingka ngata-ni moto, wae wo'o ompi' -ta to napobagia Kristus Yesus hi Yudea toera rabalinai' hingka to Yahudi-ra.

¹⁴For 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;

¹⁵To Yahudi toe wo'o-ra-wadi to mpopatehi nabi-nabi owi pai' mpopatehi Pue' Yesus, duu' -na kai' wo'o-mi rabalinai' to Yahudi toera. Me'ewa ncuu-ra hi konoa Alata'ala, pai' jadi' bali' hawe'ea tauna-ramo.

¹⁵who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn’t please God, and are contrary to all men;

¹⁶Apa' ralawa' -lawa' ncuu ohea-kai bona ngalai' neo' kiparata kareba to mpokeni kalompea' hi tauna to bela-ra to Yahudi Jadi', ngkai hawe'ea gau' -ra to Yahudi toe, melabi rahi-mi jeko' -ra, pai' ka'omea-na mporata-ramo roe Alata'ala.

¹⁶forbidding 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.

¹⁷Ompi' -ompi', ngkai pogaa' -ta to hampai' tohe'i-e, lentora lia-kai mpokalentorai-koi. Nau' mogaa' -ta hi mata, aga kipoimata-mata oa' -koi hi rala nono-kai. Jadi', kipali' -mi ohea-kai tilou mpencuai' -koi.

¹⁷But 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,

¹⁸Ria mpu'u-mi wengi hawa' -kai ke tilou mpencuai' -koie. Aku' Paulus, ba hangkuja ngkani-ama moliwo tilou, aga Magau' Anudaa' melawa'.

¹⁸because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.

¹⁹Doko' mpu'u-kai mpencuai' -koi, apa' ane rata-ipi mpai' Pue' -ta Pue' Yesus, pai' -ta morumpu hi nyanyoa-na, koi' -mi to jadi' wua' bago-kai to kisarumaka. Nto'u toe mpai', goe' pai' bohe nono-kai sabana koi' ompi'.

¹⁹For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus TR adds “Christ” at his coming?

²⁰Bate koi' -mile kabohea pai' kagoea' nono-kaie!

²⁰For you are our glory and our joy.