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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>1 Thessalonians 2 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_thessalonians/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_thessalonians/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > 1 Thess. 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_thessalonians/1.htm" title="1 Thessalonians 1">◄</a> 1 Thessalonians 2 <a href="../1_thessalonians/3.htm" title="1 Thessalonians 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/1_thessalonians/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Paul’s Ministry to the Thessalonians</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>For you yourselves know, brothers,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or brothers and sisters; also verses 9, 14, 17">a</a></sup></span> that our coming to you was not in vain. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For we never came with words of flattery,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or with a flattering speech">b</a></sup></span> as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But we were gentle<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts infants">c</a></sup></span> among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For you know how, like a father with his children, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And we also thank God constantly<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or without ceasing">d</a></sup></span> for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Greek word anthropoi can refer to both men and women">e</a></sup></span> but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Greek word Ioudaioi can refer to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, who opposed the Christian faith in that time">f</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last!<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or completely, or forever">g</a></sup></span></p> <p class="heading">Paul’s Longing to See Them Again</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>because we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, again and again—but Satan hindered us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For you are our glory and joy.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">brothers</span> and sisters</i>; also verses 9, 14, 17<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">with</span> a flattering speech</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> Some manuscripts <i>infants</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Or <i>without ceasing</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> The Greek word <i language="Greek">anthropoi</i> can refer to both men and women<br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> The Greek word <i language="Greek">Ioudaioi</i> can refer to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, who opposed the Christian faith in that time<br /><span class="footnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> Or <i>completely</i>, or <i>forever</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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