데살로니가전서 2

1형제들아 우리가 너희 가운데 들어감이 헛되지 않은 줄을 너희가 친히 아나니 2너희 아는 바와 같이 우리가 먼저 빌립보에서 고난과 능욕을 당하였으나 우리 하나님을 힘입어 많은 싸움 중에 하나님의 복음을 너희에게 말하였노라 3우리의 권면은 간사에서나 부정에서 난 것도 아니요 궤계에 있는 것도 아니라 4오직 하나님의 옳게 여기심을 입어 복음 전할 부탁을 받았으니 우리가 이와 같이 말함은 사람을 기쁘게 하려 함이 아니요 오직 우리 마음을 감찰하시는 하나님을 기쁘시게 하려 함이라 5너희도 알거니와 우리가 아무 때에도 아첨의 말이나 탐심의 탈을 쓰지 아니한 것을 하나님이 증거하시느니라 6우리가 그리스도의 사도로 능히 존중할 터이나 그러나 너희에게든지 다른 이에게든지 사람에게는 영광을 구치 아니하고 7오직 우리가 너희 가운데서 유순한 자 되어 유모가 자기 자녀를 기름과 같이 하였으니 8우리가 이같이 너희를 사모하여 하나님의 복음으로만 아니라 우리 목숨까지 너희에게 주기를 즐겨함은 너희가 우리의 사랑하는 자 됨이니라 9형제들아 우리의 수고와 애쓴 것을 너희가 기억하리니 너희 아무에게도 누를 끼치지 아니하려고 밤과 낮으로 일하면서 너희에게 하나님의 복음을 전파하였노라 10우리가 너희 믿는 자들을 향하여 어떻게 거룩하고 옳고 흠 없이 행한 것에 대하여 너희가 증인이요 하나님도 그러하시도다 11너희도 아는 바와 같이 우리가 너희 각 사람에게 아비가 자기 자녀에게 하듯 권면하고 위로하고 경계하노니 12이는 너희를 부르사 자기 나라와 영광에 이르게 하시는 하나님께 합당히 행하게 하려 함이니라 13이러므로 우리가 하나님께 쉬지 않고 감사함은 너희가 우리에게 들은 바 하나님의 말씀을 받을 때에 사람의 말로 아니하고 하나님의 말씀으로 받음이니 진실로 그러하다 이 말씀이 또한 너희 믿는 자 속에서 역사하느니라 14형제들아 너희가 그리스도 예수 안에서 유대에 있는 하나님의 교회들을 본받은 자 되었으니 저희가 유대인들에게 고난을 받음과 같이 너희도 너희 나라 사람들에게 동일한 것을 받았느니라 15유대인은 주 예수와 선지자들을 죽이고 우리를 쫓아내고 하나님을 기쁘시게 아니하고 모든 사람에게 대적이 되어 16우리가 이방인에게 말하여 구원 얻게 함을 저희가 금하여 자기 죄를 항상 채우매 노하심이 끝까지 저희에게 임하였느니라 17형제들아 우리가 잠시 너희를 떠난 것은 얼굴이요 마음은 아니니 너희 얼굴 보기를 열정으로 더욱 힘썼노라 18그러므로 나 바울은 한 번 두 번 너희에게 가고자 하였으나 사단이 우리를 막았도다 19우리의 소망이나 기쁨이나 자랑의 면류관이 무엇이냐 그의 강림하실 때 우리 주 예수 앞에 너희가 아니냐 20너희는 우리의 영광이요 기쁨이니라

1For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain, 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. 3For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception. 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. 5For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness), 6nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ. 7But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children. 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. 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. 10You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe. 11As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children, 12to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory. 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. 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; 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; 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. 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, 18because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us. 19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming? 20For you are our glory and our joy.

1Want gij weet zelven, broeders, onzen ingang tot u, dat die niet ijdel is geweest; 2Maar, hoewel wij te voren geleden hadden, en ook ons smaadheid aangedaan was, gelijk gij weet, te Filippi, zo hebben wij nochtans vrijmoedigheid gebruikt in onzen God, om het Evangelie van God tot u te spreken in veel strijds. 3Want onze vermaning is niet geweest uit verleiding, noch uit onreinigheid, noch met bedrog; 4Maar, gelijk wij van God beproefd zijn geweest, dat ons het Evangelie zou toebetrouwd worden, alzo spreken wij, niet als mensen behagende, maar Gode, Die onze harten beproeft. 5Want wij hebben nooit met pluimstrijkende woorden omgegaan, gelijk gij weet, noch met enig bedeksel van gierigheid; God is Getuige! 6Noch zoekende eer uit mensen, noch van u, noch van anderen; hoewel wij u tot last konden zijn als Christus' apostelen; 7Maar wij zijn vriendelijk geweest in het midden van u, gelijk als een voedster haar kinderen koestert; 8Alzo wij, tot u zeer genegen zijnde, hebben u gaarne willen mededelen niet alleen het Evangelie van God, maar ook onze eigen zielen, daarom dat gij ons lief geworden waart. 9Want gij gedenkt, broeders, onzen arbeid en moeite; want nacht en dag werkende, opdat wij niemand onder u zouden lastig zijn, hebben wij het Evangelie van God onder u gepredikt. 10Gij zijt getuigen, en God, hoe heilig, en rechtvaardig, en onberispelijk wij u, die gelooft, geweest zijn. 11Gelijk gij weet, hoe wij een iegelijk van u, als een vader zijn kinderen, vermaanden en vertroostten, 12En betuigden, dat gij zoudt wandelen, waardiglijk Gode, Die u roept tot Zijn Koninkrijk en heerlijkheid. 13Daarom danken wij ook God zonder ophouden, dat, als gij het Woord der prediking van God van ons ontvangen hebt, gij dat aangenomen hebt, niet als der mensen woord, maar (gelijk het waarlijk is) als Gods Woord, dat ook werkt in u, die gelooft. 14Want gij, broeders, zijt navolgers geworden der Gemeenten Gods, die in Judea zijn, in Christus Jezus; dewijl ook gij hetzelfde geleden hebt van uw eigen medeburgers, gelijk als zij van de Joden; 15Welke ook gedood hebben den Heere Jezus, en hun eigen profeten; en ons hebben vervolgd, en Gode niet behagen, en alle mensen tegen zijn; 16En verhinderen ons te spreken tot de heidenen, dat zij zalig mochten worden; opdat zij te allen tijd hun zonden vervullen zouden. En de toorn is over hen gekomen tot het einde. 17Maar wij, broeders, van u beroofd geweest zijnde voor een kleine wijle tijds, naar het aangezicht, niet naar het hart, hebben ons te overvloediger benaarstigd, om uw aangezicht te zien, met grote begeerte. 18Daarom hebben wij tot u willen komen (immers ik Paulus) eenmaal en andermaal, maar de satanas heeft ons belet. 19Want welke is onze hoop, of blijdschap, of kroon des roems? Zijt gij die ook niet voor onzen Heere Jezus Christus in Zijn toekomst? 20Want gij zijt onze heerlijkheid en blijdschap.