1For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,
1Ay atmaten, kunwi s yiman-nwen teẓram mačči mbla lmeɛna i d-nusa ɣuṛ-wen.
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.
2Teẓram daɣen nenneɛtab, nețwargem di temdint n Filibus, meɛna neṭṭef di liman-nneɣ di Sidi Ṛebbi, nkemmel abecceṛ n wawal-is gar-awen ɣas akken nețwaqehheṛ.
3For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
3Lexbeṛ-agi n lxiṛ i wen-d newwi ur ibni ara ɣef lekdeb neɣ ɣef tḥila d lexdeɛ.
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.
4Sidi Ṛebbi ițkel fell-aɣ, daymi i ɣ-iceggeɛ iwakken a nbecceṛ awal-is. Axaṭer iẓra nețmeslay mačči iwakken a neɛǧeb i yemdanen, meɛna iwakken a s-neɛǧeb i nețța yessnen ulawen-nneɣ.
5For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
5Teẓram belli leɛmeṛ ur nemmeslay s usqizzeb neɣ neḍmeɛ kra deg yiwen, atan Sidi Ṛebbi d inigi !
6nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
6Leɛmeṛ ur nqelleb ad yali ccan-nneɣ ama ɣuṛ-wen ama ɣer wiyaḍ ; yerna lemmer nebɣi, nezmer a nḥettem iman-nneɣ fell-awen imi d imceggɛen n Lmasiḥ i nella !
7But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
7Meɛna asmi nella gar-awen, neččuṛ d leḥnana am tyemmaț ițḥadaren ɣef warraw-is.
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.
8Imi tellam deg wulawen-nneɣ, mačči kan d lexbaṛ n lxiṛ n Sidi Ṛebbi i nebɣa a wen-nbecceṛ, meɛna nezmer a nsebbel ula ț-țiṛwiḥin-nneɣ fell-awen, axaṭer teɛzizem fell-aɣ aṭas.
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.
9Ma tecfam ay atmaten ɣef wussan nni mi i wen-d-newwi lexbaṛ n lxiṛ, nenneɛtab, nxeddem iḍ d wass akken ur nețțili ț-țaɛkumt ula i yiwen deg-wen.
10You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
10Ṛebbi yeẓra, kunwi teẓram belli tikli-nneɣ teṣfa, nedda s lḥeqq, yiwen ur aɣ-d-issukkes lɛib gar-awen kunwi s wid yumnen.
11As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
11Teẓram daɣen nella i mkul yiwen deg-wen am ubabat ɣer warraw-is.
12to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
12Nenha-kkun, nesseǧhed-ikkun, nḥellel-ikkun iwakken aț-țeddum akken yebɣa Sidi Ṛebbi i wen-d issawlen ɣer tgeldit-is d lɛaḍima-s.
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.
13S wakka nețḥemmid dayem Sidi Ṛebbi imi tqeblem awal-is i wen-d newwi. Tqeblem-t mačči am akken d awal n wemdan, meɛna tqeblem-t imi d awal n Sidi Ṛebbi. D awal-agi i gxeddmen deg-wen tura, kunwi s wid yumnen.
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;
14Ay atmaten, tedṛa yid-wen am tejmuyaɛ n imasiḥiyen yellan di tmurt n Yahuda : akken i kkun-qehṛen warraw n tmurt-nwen akken daɣen i ten-qehṛen wudayen.
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;
15D udayen-agi i genɣan Ssid nneɣ Ɛisa Lmasiḥ akk-d lenbiya, d nutni daɣen i ɣ-iqehṛen. Ɛuṣan Sidi Ṛebbi yerna d iɛdawen n yemdanen.
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.
16Rnan kemmlen di ddnubat-nsen, axaṭer ur ɣ-ǧǧin ara a nbecceṛ leslak n Sidi Ṛebbi i leǧnas nniḍen ur nelli ara n wat Isṛail. S wakka i d-yeɣli lɛiqab n Sidi Ṛebbi fell-asen.
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,
17Ma d nukni ay atmaten seg wasmi i d-nṛuḥ s ɣuṛ-wen, ɣas akken ur kkun-ẓerrent ara wallen, tellam deg wulawen-nneɣ ; nxaq fell-awen aṭas, daymi i neɛṛeḍ a d-nas iwakken a kkun-nẓer.
18because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.
18Acḥal n tikkal i nebɣa a nuɣal ɣuṛ-wen, nekk s yiman-iw, yiwet neɣ snat n tikkal i ɛerḍeɣ a n-ruḥeɣ, meɛna Cciṭan ur aɣ yeǧǧi ara, iqḍeɛ-aɣ abrid.
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?
19D kunwi i d sebba n usirem d lfeṛḥ-nneɣ ɣer Sidi Ṛebbi, yis-wen ara nzuxx zdat Ssid-nneɣ Ɛisa asm'ara d-yuɣal.
20For you are our glory and our joy.
20Ț-țideț, d kunwi i d can nneɣ i d lfeṛḥ-nneɣ.