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

¹ Zama, nya-izey, araŋ bumbey ga bay kaŋ iri furoyaŋ araŋ do mana te yaamo.

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.

² Iri jin ka maa gurzugay da wowi boobo Filibi kwaara ra, mate kaŋ araŋ ga bay. Amma iri te bine-gaabi iri Irikoyo ra ka Irikoy Baaru Hanna salaŋ araŋ se, baa kaŋ gaabakasina boobo go no.

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

³ Zama iri yaamaryaŋ, manti siiriyaŋ ra no a go, manti nda ziibi wane mo no, manti mo gulinci ra no.

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.

⁴ Amma mate kaŋ cine Irikoy n'iri gosi hal iri bara yaddante yaŋ a se, hal a na Baaru Hanna daŋ iri kambe ra, yaadin cine no iri goono ga salaŋ. Iri go ga salaŋ manti zama iri ma kaan borey se bo, amma zama iri ma kaan Irikoy se, nga kaŋ g'iri biney neesi.

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

⁵ Zama araŋ ga bay kaŋ iri mana sanni kaanoyaŋ ci baa ce fo. Iri mana sanni ci biniyay kobay ra, (Irikoy no ga ti seeda).

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

⁶ Iri mana darza ceeci mo borey do, d'araŋ do no wala boro fo do no, baa kaŋ iri gonda dabari iri m'araŋ tiŋandi, iri kaŋ ga ti Almasihu diyey.

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

⁷ Amma iri ciya baanikomyaŋ araŋ game ra, danga mate kaŋ cine ize hampako ga haggoy da nga izey.

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.

⁸ Yaadin no iri mo, iri gonda araŋ muraadu gumo. Iri maa kaani iri m'araŋ no, manti Irikoy Baaru Hanna hinne bo, amma baa iri fundey mo, zama araŋ ciya iri se baakasinay hari gumo.

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.

⁹ Nya-izey, araŋ ga fongu nda iri goyo d'iri taabo. Iri goy cin da zaari zama iri ma si boro kulu tiŋandi araŋ game ra. Yaadin no iri te ka Irikoy Baaru Hanna waazu araŋ se.

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

¹⁰ Araŋ ya seedayaŋ no, goray hanna, da adilitaray gora, da gora kaŋ sinda jance kaŋ dumi iri cabe araŋ game ra, araŋ kaŋ goono ga cimandi. Irikoy mo ga ti seeda.

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

¹¹ Araŋ ga bay mate kaŋ iri goro araŋ boro fo kulu se, sanda baaba nda nga izey cine.

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

¹² Iri n'araŋ yaamar, iri n'araŋ bine gaabandi, iri n'araŋ ŋwaaray araŋ ma diraw te kaŋ ga saba nda Irikoy beerandiyaŋ, nga kaŋ g'araŋ ce nga bumbo koytara nda nga darza ra.

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.

¹³ Woodin sabbay se no iri goono ga Irikoy saabu waati kulu, zama waato kaŋ araŋ na Irikoy Sanno ta kaŋ araŋ maa iri do, araŋ n'a ta manti danga borey sanni no, amma mate kaŋ a go da cimi, Irikoy Sanno no. A goono ga goy araŋ ra mo, araŋ kaŋ ga ti cimandikoy.

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;

¹⁴ Zama araŋ, ay nya-izey, araŋ kulu ciya dondonkoyaŋ Irikoy margey kaŋ yaŋ go Yahudiya ra Almasihu Yesu ra se. Zama araŋ mo na taabi haŋ araŋ dumey kambe ra sanda mate kaŋ i na taabi haŋ Yahudancey* do.

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;

¹⁵ Ngey no ka Rabbi Yesu nda annabey wi. I n'iri mo gaaray. I si kaan Irikoy se, i goono ga gaaba nda borey kulu mo.

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.

¹⁶ I goono g'iri ganji iri ma salaŋ dumi* cindey se hal i ma du faaba. Woodin gaa no i ga ngey zunubey toonandi alwaati kulu. Amma _Irikoy|_ futay toonanta zumbu i boŋ.

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,

¹⁷ Nya-izey, i n'iri fay d'araŋ alwaati kayna, manti bina ra bo, amma gaaham ra. Amma iri wo, iri ga tonton ka kookari gumo da anniya, iri ma du ka di araŋ moydumey.

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

¹⁸ Zama iri ga ba iri ma kaa araŋ do, sanku fa ay Bulos, ay ba ay ma kaa araŋ do kaŋ manti ce fo, amma Saytan n'iri ganji.

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?

¹⁹ Zama ifo ga ti iri beeja, d'iri farhã, d'iri farhã boŋtoba? Manti araŋ no, iri Rabbi Yesu jine a kaayaŋo waate?

²⁰For you are our glory and our joy.

²⁰ Zama araŋ no ga ti iri darza d'iri farhã.