1 Thessalonians 2 - UPDV Updated Bible Version

^2:1 For yourselves, brothers, know our entering in to you⁺, that it has not been found vain:
^2:2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you⁺ know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak to you⁺ the good news of God in much conflict.
^2:3 For our exhortation [is] not of error, nor of impurity, nor in guile:
^2:4 but even as we have been approved of God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proves our hearts.
^2:5 For neither at any time did we come in words of flattery, as you⁺ know, nor in a cloak of greed, God is witness;
^2:6 nor seeking glory of men, neither from you⁺ nor from others.
^2:7 We could have been a burden as apostles of Christ. But we became juveniles among you⁺, as when a nurse cherishes her own children:
^2:8 even so, being affectionately desirous of you⁺, we were well pleased to impart to you⁺, not the good news of God only, but also our own souls, because you⁺ became very dear to us.
^2:9 For you⁺ remember, brothers, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you⁺, we preached to you⁺ the good news of God.
^2:10 You⁺ are witnesses, and God [also], how holily and righteously and unblamably we became toward you⁺ who believe:
^2:11 as you⁺ know how we [dealt with] each one of you⁺, as a father with his own children,
^2:12 exhorting you⁺, and encouraging, and testifying, to the end that you⁺ should walk worthily of God, who calls you⁺ into his own kingdom and glory.
^2:13 And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you⁺ received from us the word of the message, [even the word] 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.
^2:14 For you⁺, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus: for you⁺ also suffered the same things of your⁺ own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;
^2:15 who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and do not please God, and are contrary to all men;
^2:16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: but the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.
^2:17 But we, brothers, being bereaved of you⁺ for a short season, in presence not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your⁺ face with great desire:
^2:18 because we wanted to come to you⁺, I Paul once and again; and Satan hindered us.
^2:19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even you⁺, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
^2:20 For you⁺ are our glory and our joy.

1 Thessalonians, Chapter 2