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

¹Saj sami veste, bratje, za naš prihod k vam, da ni bil prazen:

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.

²temuč, dasi smo trpeli prej in smo bili zasramovani, kakor veste, v Filipih, osrčili smo se v Bogu našem, da govorimo k vam evangelij Božji v mnogem boju.

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

³Kajti opominjanje naše ni iz zmotnjave, ne iz nečistosti, ne v zvijači,

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.

⁴temuč kakor nas je Bog za vredne spoznal izročiti nam evangelij, tako govorimo; ne da bi bili ljudem po volji, ampak Bogu, ki presoja 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),

⁵Kajti s prilizljivo besedo nismo nastopili nikdar, kakor veste, niti s kako pretvezo za lakomnost, Bog je priča;

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

⁶tudi nismo iskali slave od ljudi, ne od vas, ne od drugih, dasi bi bili lahko imenitni kakor apostoli Kristusovi.

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

⁷Ampak bili smo krotki sredi vas, kakor pač dojka goji otroke svoje:

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.

⁸prav tako, milo hrepeneč po vas, nas je bila volja, ne samo podati vam evangelij Božji, ampak tudi duše svoje, ker smo si vas jako priljubili.

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.

⁹Saj se spominjate, bratje, truda našega in težave: ker noč in dan smo delali, da bi ne bili nadležni komu izmed vas, ko smo vam oznanjali evangelij Božji.

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

¹⁰Vi ste priče, pa tudi Bog, kako sveto in pravično in brez graje smo se vedli do vas, ki verujete;

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

¹¹da smo, kakor veste, slehernega izmed vas kakor oče otroke svoje opominjali, izpodbujali in rotili,

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

¹²da živite dostojno Boga, ki vas kliče v svoje kraljestvo in slavo.

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 tudi mi zahvaljujemo Boga neprestano, da ste, prejemši od nas besedo oznanila Božjega, jo sprejeli ne kot besedo človeško, ampak, kakor je resnično, kot besedo Božjo, ki tudi deluje v vas verujočih.

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;

¹⁴Zakaj vi ste postali, bratje, posnemalci cerkva Božjih, ki so v Judeji v Kristusu Jezusu, ker ste tudi vi isto trpeli od lastnih rojakov, kakor tudi oni od Judov;

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;

¹⁵ti so i Gospoda Jezusa umorili i proroke in nas pregnali, in Bogu niso prijetni in vsem ljudem so zoprni;

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.

¹⁶nam branijo govoriti poganom, da bi se zveličali, da tako vsekdar napolnijo mero grehov svojih. Prišla pa je nadnje jeza Božja do konca.

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,

¹⁷Mi pa, bratje, osiroteli za vami za nekaj časa, po obličju, ne po srcu, smo si tolikanj bolj prizadevali videti obličje vaše z mnogim hrepenenjem.

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

¹⁸Zato smo hoteli priti k vam, jaz Pavel enkrat, dvakrat, a branil nam je satan.

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?

¹⁹Kajti kdo je naše upanje, ali veselje, ali slave venec? Ali ne tudi vi pred Gospodom našim Jezusom Kristusom o prihodu njegovem?Vi ste zares slava naša in veselje.

²⁰For you are our glory and our joy.

²⁰Vi ste zares slava naša in veselje.