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

¹Sami doista znate, braćo: naš dolazak k vama nije bio uzaludan.

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.

²Naprotiv, i pošto smo, kako znate, u Filipima trpjeli i bili pogrđeni, odvažismo se u Bogu našemu iznijeti vam, uz tešku borbu, evanđelje Božje.

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

³Uistinu, naše poticanje ne proistječe iz zablude, ni nečistoće, ni prijevare,

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.

⁴nego kako je Bog prosudio povjeriti nam evanđelje, tako ga i navješćujemo - ne kao da želimo ugoditi ljudima, nego Bogu koji prosuđuje srca naša.

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

⁵Nikada se zaista kako znate, ne poslužismo ni laskavom riječju ni - Bog nam je svjedok - prikrivenom pohlepom.

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

⁶Niti smo od ljudi iskali slavu - ni od vas, ni od drugih -

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

⁷premda smo se mogli nametnuti kao Kristovi apostoli. Ali bili smo među vama nježni kao majka što hrani i njeguje svoju djecu.

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.

⁸Tako, puni ljubavi prema vama, htjedosmo vam predati ne samo evanđelje Božje nego i naše duše jer ste nam omiljeli.

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.

⁹Sjećate se doista, braćo, našega truda i napora. Propovijedali smo vam evanđelje Božje i radili noću i danju da ne bismo opteretili koga od vas.

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

¹⁰Svjedoci ste vi i Bog kako smo se sveto, pravedno i besprijekorno vladali prema vama, vjernicima.

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

¹¹Kao što znate, svakoga smo od vas kao otac svoju djecu,

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

¹²poticali, sokolili i zaklinjali da živite dostojno Boga koji vas pozva u svoje kraljevstvo i slavu.

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.

¹³Zato, eto, i mi bez prestanka zahvaljujemo Bogu što ste, kad od nas primiste riječ poruke Božje, primili ne riječ ljudsku, nego kakva uistinu jest, riječ Božju koja i djeluje u vama, vjernicima.

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;

¹⁴Doista, vi ste, braćo, postali nasljedovatelji crkava Božjih koje su u Judeji u Kristu Isusu: i vi isto trpite od svojih suplemenika što i oni od Židova,

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;

¹⁵koji su i Gospodina Isusa i proroke ubili, i nas progonili, te Bogu ne ugađaju i svim se ljudima protive

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.

¹⁶kad nam priječe propovijedati poganima da se spase, da bi tako u svako vrijeme navršili mjeru zlodjela svojih. Ali sručio se na njih konačni gnjev.

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,

¹⁷A mi, braćo, pošto smo za kratko vrijeme ostali bez vas - licem, ne srcem - brže se bolje, u silnoj čežnji, požurismo ugledati vaše lice.

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

¹⁸Zaista, htjedosmo k vama - ja, Pavao, i jednom i dvaput - ali nas je spriječio Sotona.

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?

¹⁹Ta tko li će biti naša nada, radost ili vijenac dični - zar možda ne i vi? - pred Gospodinom našim Isusom o njegovu Dolasku?

²⁰For you are our glory and our joy.

²⁰Vi ste doista slava naša i radost!