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1 For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not useless.
1 PORQUE, hermanos, vosotros mismos sabéis que nuestra entrada á vosotros no fué vana:
1 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,
2 You know that we previously suffered and were shamefully treated at Philippi. We were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much struggling.
2 Pues aun habiendo padecido antes, y sido afrentados en Filipos, como sabéis, tuvimos denuedo en Dios nuestro para anunciaros el evangelio de Dios con gran combate.
2 but 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 For our exhortation was not from error, nor from impurity, nor from deceit.
3 Porque nuestra exhortación no [fué] de error, ni de inmundicia, ni por engaño;
3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
4 Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be trusted with the gospel, so we speak. We speak, not to please men, but to please God. He is the one who examines our hearts.
4 Sino según fuimos aprobados de Dios para que se nos encargase el evangelio, así hablamos; no como los que agradan á los hombres, sino á Dios, el cual prueba nuestros corazones.
4 But 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 For we never used words of flattery, as you know, nor as an excuse to cover up greed— God is our witness.
5 Porque nunca fuimos lisonjeros en la palabra, como sabéis, ni tocados de avaricia; Dios es testigo;
5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
6 Nor did we seek glory from people, either from you or from others. We could have claimed privileges as apostles of Christ.
6 Ni buscamos de los hombres gloria, ni de vosotros, ni de otros, aunque podíamos seros carga como apóstoles de Cristo.
6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
7 Instead, we were as gentle among you as a mother comforting her own children.
7 Antes fuimos blandos entre vosotros como la que cría, que regala á sus hijos:
7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
8 In this way we had affection for you. We were pleased to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives. For you had become very dear to us.
8 Tan amadores de vosotros, que quisiéramos entregaros no sólo el evangelio de Dios, mas aun nuestras propias almas; porque nos erais carísimos.
8 Even 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 For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil. Night and day we were working so that we might not weigh down any of you. During that time, we preached to you the gospel of God.
9 Porque ya, hermanos, os acordáis de nuestro trabajo y fatiga: que trabajando de noche y de día por no ser gravosos á ninguno de vosotros, os predicamos el evangelio de Dios.
9 For 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 You are witnesses, and God also, how holy, righteous, and blameless was our behavior toward you who believe.
10 Vosotros sois testigos, y Dios, de cuán santa y justa é irreprensiblemente nos condujimos con vosotros que creísteis:
10 You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
11 In the same way you know how we dealt with each one of you as a father deals with his own children.
11 Así como sabéis de qué modo exhortábamos y consolábamos á cada uno de vosotros, como el padre á sus hijos,
11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
12 We were begging you and encouraging and urging you to walk in a manner that is worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.
12 Y os protestábamos que anduvieseis [como es] digno de Dios, que os llamó á su reino y gloria.
12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
13 For this reason we also thank God constantly. For when you received from us God's message that you heard, you accepted it not as the word of man. Instead, you received it as it truly is, the word of God. It is this word that is also at work among you who believe.
13 Por lo cual, también nosotros damos gracias á Dios sin cesar, de que habiendo recibido la palabra de Dios que oísteis de nosotros, recibisteis no palabra de hombres, sino según es en verdad, la palabra de Dios, el cual obra en vosotros los que creísteis.
13 For 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, God’s word, which also works in you who believe.
14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they did from the Jews.
14 Porque vosotros, hermanos, habéis sido imitadores de las iglesias de Dios en Cristo Jesús que están en Judea; pues habéis padecido también vosotros las mismas cosas de los de vuestra propia nación, como también ellos de los Judíos;
14 For 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
15 It was the Jews who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets. It was the Jews who drove us out. They do not please God. Instead, they are hostile to all people.
15 Los cuales aun mataron al Señor Jesús y á sus propios profetas, y á nosotros nos han perseguido; y no agradan á Dios, y se oponen á todos los hombres;
15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,
16 They forbid us to speak to the Gentiles for them to be saved. The result is that they always fill up their own sins. Wrath must come on them in the end.
16 Prohibiéndonos hablar á los Gentiles, á fin de que se salven, para henchir [la medida de] sus pecados siempre: pues vino sobre ellos la ira hasta el extremo.
16 forbidding 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.
17 We were separated from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart. We were especially eager, with great desire, to see your face.
17 Mas nosotros, hermanos, privados de vosotros por un poco de tiempo, de vista, no de corazón, tanto más procuramos con mucho deseo ver vuestro rostro.
17 But 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,
18 For we wished to come to you—I, Paul, wished to come to you once and again—but Satan stopped us.
18 Por lo cual quisimos ir á vosotros, yo Pablo á la verdad, una vez y otra; mas Satanás nos embarazó.
18 because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of pride in front of our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you just as much as others?
19 Porque ¿cuál es nuestra esperanza, ó gozo, ó corona de que me gloríe? ¿No sois vosotros, delante de nuestro Señor Jesucristo en su venida?
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
20 For you are our glory and our joy.
20 Que vosotros sois nuestra gloria y gozo.
20 For you are our glory and our joy.
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
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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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)