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

¹Zhanen mishto tume, amare phral, ke chi geliam tumende intaino.

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.

²Tume zhanen ke chinuisardiam ai vunzhe vutisardia ame ando Filipi mai anglal sar te aresas tumende ande Thesalonika. Numa O Del dia ame e zor te anas tumenge e lashi viasta kai avel lestar, marka ke but roden te rimon.

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

³Ke amaro divano pa Del kai phenas le manushenge, nai xoxamlo vai bi vuzho, ai chi rodas te shubisaras kanikas.

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.

⁴Numa das duma sagda sar O Del mangel, ke wo manglia ai dia ame peski lashi viasta te ingeras la. Ame chi rodas te avas drazhi le manushenge, numa le Devleske, wo kai lel sama le ginduria amare ileske.

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

⁵Tume zhanen ke shoxar chi kerdiam barimata ande amaro divano, ai vi chi garadiam ande amare vorbi ke mangas te nirisaras love, ai O Del zhanel!

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

⁶Chi rodiam te luvudil ame khonik, chi anda tumende, ai chi andal kolaver, ai te mangliamas sai thodiamas tume te le amari zor sar slugi le Kristoske.

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

⁷Numa lashe samas kana samas tumende, lashe sar iek dei kai lel sama peske glatendar.

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.

⁸Pala amari dragostia tumenge, gata samas te das tume na ferdi e lashi viasta kai avel katar O Del numa vi amaro traio. Ke tume kadia de drago sanas amenge.

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.

⁹Tume seren tume, amare phral, sar ame kerdiam buchi ai samas defial chine, ame kerdiam buchi vi adiese ai vi e riate, saxke te na las pe love chi ieskeske anda tumende, phendiam tumenge e lashi viasta kai avel katar O Del.

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

¹⁰Tume san amare marturia, ai vi O Del si amaro marturo: amaro traio mashkar tumende, tume kai pachan tume ando Del vuzho sas, vorta, ai bi doshako.

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

¹¹Tume zhanen ke kerdiam swakonesa anda tumende sar kerel iek dat peske shavensa.

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

¹²Ame diam tume zor ando pachamos, ai raduisardiam tumare ile, ame mangliam tumendar sa amare ilesa te traiin iek traio kai si drago le Devleske, wo kai akhardia tume te aven ande lesko rhaio ai ande lesko luvudimos.

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.

¹³Ame naisisaras le Devleske sagda anda iek kolaver diela, kana andian tumenge E Vorba le Devleski tume ashundian late, ai premisardian la na sar ek vorba kai avel katar o manush numa sar ek Vorba kai avel katar O Del, ai chaches si E Vorba le Devleski, ai e Vorba kerel buchi ande tumende kai pachan tume ande late.

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;

¹⁴Tume murhe phral, kerdiliam tumensa sa kodola dieli kai kerdilia le Devleske khangeriange kai si ande Judea, kodole narodoske kai dinepe le Kristoske. Tume sanas chinuime katar o narodo kai si ande tumaro them sa sar won sas chinuime katar le Zhiduvuria.

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;

¹⁵Won kai mudarde le Jesus Kristos ai le profeton, ai kai chinuisarde amen, won chi traiin sar mangel O Del ai won si duzhmaia sa le manushenge.

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.

¹⁶Won thon zor te aterdiaren ame te ingeras ka kodola kai Nai Zhiduvuria, e Vorba kai anel lenge o skepimos. Kado si lengo mai baro bezex kai thode opral pa penge bezexa kai kerde mai anglal, numa e xoli le Devleski sa woi aresli len.

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,

¹⁷Numa ame, amare phral, de sar geliamtar tumendar pe xantsi vriama, amaro stato nai tumensa, numa tume ande amare ile san, amenge si anda tumende ai sa amare ilesa mangas te mai dikhas tume!

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

¹⁸Ame mangliam te avas tumende, me, o Pavlo zumadem te kerav kodia butivar, numa o beng chi meklia ame.

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?

¹⁹Tume, kai san amaro pachamos, raduimos, ai o semno ke nirisarasa, ai kai ame sai luvudisavas angla amaro Devles Jesus Kristo kana avela palpale.

²⁰For you are our glory and our joy.

²⁰Tume san amaro luvudimos ai amaro raduimos!