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

¹Fa ny tenanareo, ry rahalahy, dia mahalala fa tsy foana ny fidiranay tatỳ aminareo;

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.

²fa rehefa nampahorina sy nisetrasetrana tany Filipy izahay teo aloha, tahaka ny fantatrareo ihany, dia sahy tao amin'Andriamanitray izahay hiteny taminareo ny filazantsaran'Andriamanitra, na dia be aza ny fanoherana.

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

³Fa ny fananaranay dia tsy avy amin'ny fitaka, na ny fahalotoana, na ny soloky.

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.

⁴Fa tahaka ny nankasitrahan'Andriamanitra anay, ka notolorana ny filazantsara ho adidinay izahay, dia araka izany koa no itenenanay, tsy toy ny mila sitraka amin'olona, fa amin'Andriamanitra, Izay mizaha toetra ny fonay.

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

⁵Fa tsy nanao teny mandrobo akory izahay na oviana na oviana, tahaka ny fantatrareo ihany, na nihatsaravelatsihy hanafina fieremana (Andriamanitra no vavolombelona);

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

⁶ary tsy nitady voninahitra tamin'olona izahay, na taminareo, na tamin'ny sasany, na dia nanam-pahefana hahavaky tratra aza izahay, araka izay mah'Apostolin'i Kristy anay,.

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

⁷Fa nalemy fanahy teo aminareo izahay, tahaka ny reny mitaiza ny zanany naterany,

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.

⁸dia toy izany no nahazoto anay, noho ny fitiavanay anareo indrindra; hanome anareo, tsy ny filazantsaran'Andriamanitra ihany, fa ny ainay koa aza, satria efa malalanay ianareo.

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.

⁹Fa tsaroanareo, ry rahalahy, ny fikelezanay aina sy ny fisasaranay; fa niasa andro aman'alina, mba tsy hahavaky tratra na dia olona iray akory taminareo aza, no nitorianay ny filazantsaran'Andriamanitra taminareo.

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

¹⁰Hianareo no vavolombelona ary Andriamanitra koa fa masina sy marina ary tsy nanan-tsiny tokoa ny fitondran-tenanay teo imasonareo izay mino,

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

¹¹toy ny fantatrareo fa tahaka ny ray amin'ny zanaka no namporisihanay sy nampiononanay anareo isam-batana sy nananaranay mafy anareo,

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

¹²mba handehananareo miendrika an'Andriamanitra, Izay miantso anareo ho amin'ny fanjakany sy ny voninahiny.

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.

¹³Ary noho izany izahay koa dia tsy mitsahatra misaotra an'Andriamanitra, satria rehefa nandray ny tenin'Andriamanitra izay notorinay ianareo, dia tsy noraisinareo ho tenin'olona, fa araka izay marina, dia ny tenin'Andriamanitra, izay miasa anatinareo izay mino koa.

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;

¹⁴Fa ianareo, ry rahalahy, dia efa tahaka ny fiangonan'Andriamanitra any Jodia izay amin'i Kristy Jesosy; fa ny nanjo anareo noho ny nataon'ny iray firenena aminareo dia sahafa amin'ny nanjo ireo koa noho ny nataon'ny Jiosy taminy,

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;

¹⁵izay namono an'i Jesosy Tompo sy ny mpaminany koa ary nandroaka anay sady tsy manao ny sitrapon'Andriamanitra ary manohitra ny olona rehetra,

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.

¹⁶ka mandrara anay tsy hitory amin'ny jentilisa mba tsy hamonjena ireny, mba hameno ny fahotan'ny tenany mandrakariva; kanjo efa niharan'ny fahatezerana hatramin'ny farany izy.

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,

¹⁷Ary izahay, ry rahalahy, rehefa tafasaraka taminareo vetivety foana tamin'ny fanatrehana, fa tsy tamin'ny fo, dia vao mainka nitady sy naniry fatratra hahita ny tavanareo.

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

¹⁸Koa naniry hankany aminareo indray mandeha amana indroa izahay, dia izaho Paoly; nefa nosakanan'i Satana izahay.

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?

¹⁹Fa inona moa no fanantenanay, na fifalianay, na satro-boninahitra reharehanay? Moa tsy ianareo eo anatrehan'i Jesosy Tompontsika amin'ny fihaviany va?Fa ianareo no voninahitray sy fifalianay.

²⁰For you are our glory and our joy.

²⁰Fa ianareo no voninahitray sy fifalianay.