¹ Waaw bokk yi, xam ngeen ne, ngan gi nu leen ganesi woon du nganug neen.

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

² Laata nuy ñëw, jaar nanu ci fitna ak toroxte ca dëkku Filib, ni ngeen ko xame; waaye Yàlla sunu Boroom may na nu fit, ba li tongoonte bi metti lépp it, yégal nanu leen xebaaru Yàlla bu baax bi.

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.

³ Ndaxte sunu waaraate wéeruwul cig réer walla ci njublaŋ walla ciy nax.

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

⁴ Waaye gannaaw Yàlla moo nu seet, ba wóolu nu te dénk nu xebaar bu baax bi, kon noonu lanuy waaree, du ngir neex nit ñi, waaye ngir neex Yàlla, miy seet xol yi.

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.

⁵ Musunoo jey kenn, yéen xam ngeen ko; sunu waare musul a ëmb bëgge, Yàlla seede na ko;

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

⁶ musunoo sàkku ngërëmu nit, muy ci yéen, muy ci ñeneen.

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

⁷ Manoon nanoo diis ci seen kaw sax, nun ñiy ndawi Kirist, waaye woyofoon nanu ci seen biir, te lewet ni jaboot buy uuf doomam.

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

⁸ Cofeel gi nu am ci yéen tax na, bëggunu woon a yem ci xamal leen xebaaru Yàlla bu baax bi, waaye jox leen it sunu bakkan, ndaxte sunu xol seeyoon na ci yéen.

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.

⁹ Bokk yi, yéena ngi fàttaliku sunu coono ak sunu ñaq; xam ngeen ni nu liggéeye guddi ak bëccëg, ngir bañ a diis ci seen kaw, ci di leen yégal xebaaru Yàlla.

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.

¹⁰ Naka sunu diggante ak yéen ñi gëm, doxal nanu ko doxalin wu sell te jub te amul sikk: seede ngeen ko, te Yàlla it seede na ko.

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

¹¹ Xam ngeen ne, dénk nanu leen kenn-kenn, ni baay di def ak doomam, dëfëlal leen seen xol te dëggal ci yéen, ngeen dund dund gu neex Yàlla, moom mi leen di woo, ngeen séddu ci nguuram ak ndamam.

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

¹³ Te it dunu noppee sant Yàlla ci lii: ba ngeen jotee kàddug Yàlla, gi nu doon waare, nangu ngeen ko, waxuma ni kàddug nit waaye ni kàddug Yàlla, ndaxte moom la ci dëgg-dëgg, te mu ngi jëf ci yéen ñi gëm.

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

¹⁴ Ndaxte bokk yi, aw ngeen ci tànki mboolooy Yàlla, yi nekk ca réewu Yawut ya tey daje ci turu Kirist Yeesu; fitna ya ñu daj ca Yawut ya, yéen it seen waa réew teg nañu leen ko.

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.

¹⁵ Ñoom Yawut yi rey nañu Boroom bi Yeesu, ni ñu reye woon yonent yi; teg nañu nu fitna yu metti; neexuñu Yàlla, ànduñu ak kenn,

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;

¹⁶ di nu teree wax ak ñi dul Yawut, ngir bañ ñu mucc. Duñu noppee xuus ci biir bàkkaar, waaye merum Yàlla xëppu na ci seen kaw.

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;

¹⁷ Nun nag bokk yi, ba ñu ma leen xañee ab diir --xol yi taxul may wax, waaye jëmm yi rekk — jéem nanu leen a gis ak sunu kem-kàttan, ndax namm nanu leen, ba sunu xol seey ci gis leen.

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.

¹⁸ Kon jàppoon nanu leen a seetsi — man Pool sax ay yooni yoon, waaye Seytaane téq na ma.

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,

¹⁹ Ndaxte bés bu Yeesu sunu Boroom dellusee, te nu fekke ko, kan mooy sunu yaakaar? Kan mooy sunu mbég? Kan mooy sunu kaala, gi nuy tiitaroo?

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

²⁰ Xanaa du yéen? Waaw yéenay sunu ndam, yéenay sunu mbég.

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?

²⁰For you are our glory and our joy.