1 Ustedes mismos saben, hermanos, que nuestra visita a ustedes no fue en vano. 2 Antes, aunque ya habíamos sufrido y sido maltratados en Filipos, como ustedes saben, tuvimos valentía en nuestro Dios para anunciarles el evangelio de Dios en medio de mucha oposición. 3 Porque nuestra exhortación no viene del error, ni de impureza, ni de engaño. 4 Al contrario, hablamos como hombres aprobados por Dios para que se nos confiara el evangelio. No buscamos agradar a los hombres, sino a Dios, quien examina nuestros corazones. 5 Ustedes saben que nunca usamos palabras de adulación, ni cubrimos avaricia con pretextos. Dios es testigo. 6 Tampoco buscamos gloria de los hombres, ni de ustedes ni de otros, aunque como apóstoles de Cristo podríamos haber exigido respeto. 7 Más bien, fuimos tiernos entre ustedes, como una madre que cuida con cariño a sus propios hijos. 8 Así, con tanto amor por ustedes, quisimos compartirles no solo el evangelio de Dios, sino también nuestras propias vidas, porque llegaron a ser muy amados para nosotros. 9 Hermanos, ustedes recuerdan nuestro trabajo y fatiga. Trabajamos de noche y de día para no ser carga a ninguno de ustedes, mientras les anunciábamos el evangelio de Dios. 10 Ustedes son testigos, y Dios también, de que nos comportamos de manera santa, justa e irreprensible entre ustedes los creyentes. 11 También saben que tratamos a cada uno de ustedes como un padre trata a sus hijos, 12 animándolos, consolándolos y exhortándolos a vivir de una manera digna de Dios, quien los llama a su reino y gloria. 13 Por esto también damos gracias a Dios sin cesar: porque cuando recibieron la palabra de Dios que oyeron de nosotros, no la recibieron como palabra de hombres, sino como lo que realmente es, palabra de Dios, la cual obra en ustedes los creyentes. 14 Porque ustedes, hermanos, llegaron a ser imitadores de las iglesias de Dios que están en Judea en Cristo Jesús. Ustedes sufrieron de parte de sus propios compatriotas lo mismo que ellas sufrieron de parte de los judíos que se opusieron a Cristo. 15 Ellos mataron al Señor Jesús y a los profetas, y también nos persiguieron. No agradan a Dios y se oponen a todos los hombres, 16 impidiéndonos hablar a los gentiles para que sean salvos. Así llenan siempre la medida de sus pecados; pero la ira de Dios ha venido sobre ellos hasta el extremo. 17 Pero nosotros, hermanos, separados de ustedes por poco tiempo, en persona pero no en corazón, procuramos con mucho más deseo ver su rostro. 18 Por eso quisimos ir a ustedes, yo Pablo una y otra vez, pero Satanás nos lo impidió. 19 Porque ¿cuál es nuestra esperanza, gozo o corona de gloria delante de nuestro Señor Jesucristo en su venida? ¿No lo son ustedes? 20 Sí, ustedes son nuestra gloria y nuestro gozo.
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Cross references (20)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Thessalonians 3:1; Philippians 2:16; Habakkuk 2:13; 1 Corinthians 15:58; 1 Corinthians 15:2
- 2 Acts 4:13; Acts 16:22–24; 2 Timothy 1:12; Acts 17:2–9; 1 Peter 2:14–16
- 3 2 Corinthians 2:17; 2 Corinthians 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 4:7; 1 Thessalonians 2:5–6; 2 Corinthians 12:16–18
- 4 Galatians 1:10; Romans 8:27; Galatians 2:7; 2 Timothy 1:14; Psalm 17:3
- 5 Romans 1:9; 2 Corinthians 12:17; Acts 20:33; Galatians 1:20; 2 Peter 2:3
- 6 Galatians 1:10; John 5:44; John 5:41; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; Philemon 8–9
- 7 Isaiah 66:13; 2 Timothy 2:24–25; 1 Thessalonians 2:11; Isaiah 49:23; 2 Corinthians 10:1
- 8 1 John 3:16; 2 Corinthians 12:15; Philippians 2:17; Romans 1:11–12; Hebrews 13:17
- 9 2 Thessalonians 3:7–9; 2 Corinthians 11:9; Acts 18:3; 2 Corinthians 12:13–14; 1 Timothy 4:10
- 10 1 Peter 5:3; 1 Thessalonians 1:5; 2 Corinthians 1:12; Titus 2:7–8; Acts 20:18
- 11 1 Corinthians 4:14–15; Hebrews 13:22; 1 Timothy 5:21; 2 Timothy 4:1–2; 2 Thessalonians 3:12
- 12 Ephesians 4:1; 1 John 2:6; 1 John 1:6–7; 2 Thessalonians 2:13–14; 1 Thessalonians 4:12
- 13 Hebrews 4:12; Romans 10:17; 1 Peter 1:23; 1 Peter 1:25; 1 Peter 2:2
- 14 1 Thessalonians 3:4; Hebrews 10:33–34; Hebrews 5:7–8; 2 Thessalonians 1:4; 2 Corinthians 8:1–2
- 15 Matthew 5:12; Luke 11:48–53; Acts 7:52; Acts 2:23; Luke 13:33–34
- 16 Acts 17:13; Acts 14:19; Acts 14:5; Malachi 4:1; Matthew 23:32
- 17 Colossians 2:5; 1 Corinthians 5:3; 1 Thessalonians 3:6; Romans 1:13; 1 Thessalonians 3:10–11
- 18 Romans 15:22; Romans 1:13; Revelation 2:10; Zechariah 3:1–2; 2 Corinthians 11:12–14
- 19 Philippians 4:1; 1 Thessalonians 3:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Philippians 2:16; 2 Corinthians 1:14
- 20 2 Corinthians 1:14; 1 Corinthians 11:7
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What the Fathers said
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
The teacher ought to do nothing with a feeling of being burdened, that tends to the salvation of his disciples. For if the blessed Jacob was buffeted night and day in keeping his flocks, much more ought he, to whom the care of souls is entrusted, to endure all toils, though the work be laborious and mean, looking only to …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 13 (1889)
For to this purpose said that dispenser of Thine,--begetting children by the gospel, --that he might not always have them "babes," whom he would feed on milk, and cherish as a nurse; "be ye transformed," saith He, "by the renewing of your mind, that he may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God." Therefore Thou …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… for ye also have suffered the same things of your own fellow-countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have driven us out; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men." Which same point here also Christ hath established.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Hear that he descended: "I became a babe in the midst of you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children." For we see both nurses and mothers descend to babes, and although they be able to speak Latin, they shorten the words, shake their tongues in a certain manner, in order to frame childish endearments from a methodical language; because …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
This Paul also was laying to their charge, when he said, "Who both killed the Lord, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us." Moreover, that they may not say, "He is an adversary of God, and therefore we do not come," hear what they say who are bidding them; that it is the father who is making the marriage, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)