1.Thessalonicher 2 | 聖經當代譯本修訂版

保羅在帖撒羅尼迦的工作

1 弟兄姊妹，你們自己知道，我們那次探望你們並沒有白費。 2 你們也知道，我們之前在腓立比遭受了迫害和凌辱，遇到強烈的反對，但仍然靠著我們的上帝放膽向你們傳揚祂的福音。 3 我們的勸勉並非出於謬誤、不良動機或詭詐。 4 我們得到了上帝的認可，受委派傳福音。我們不是要取悅人，而是要取悅鑒察我們內心的上帝。 5 你們知道，我們沒有花言巧語奉承人，也沒有心存貪念，上帝可以為我們作證。 6 我們不求得到你們或其他任何人的讚揚。 7 身為基督的使徒，我們理當受到你們的尊重，然而我們像母親撫育嬰兒一樣溫柔地對待你們。 8 我們深愛你們，對你們有深厚的感情，不僅樂意把上帝的福音傳給你們，甚至把生命給你們也在所不惜。 9 弟兄姊妹，你們一定記得我們的勞苦和艱難。我們一面向你們傳福音，一面晝夜辛勤工作，免得成為你們任何人的負擔。 10 我們怎樣以聖潔、公義、純全的方式對待你們眾信徒，你們自己可以作證，上帝也可以作證。 11 你們也知道，我們對待你們就像父親對待自己的孩子一樣。 12 我們安慰你們，勸勉你們，督促你們，好叫你們行事為人對得起上帝，祂呼召你們進入祂的國、享受祂的榮耀。 13 我們不住地感謝上帝，因為你們從我們這裡聽了上帝的道後就接受了，確信這不是人的道理，而是上帝的道。這道正在你們信的人心裡發揮作用。 14 弟兄姊妹，你們的遭遇和猶太地區基督耶穌的眾教會的遭遇一樣。你們受到了自己同胞的迫害，他們也受到了猶太人的迫害。 15 這些猶太人殺死了主耶穌和眾先知，又迫害我們。他們不但冒犯上帝，還與所有的人為敵， 16 阻止我們傳福音給外族人，唯恐他們得救。這些人惡貫滿盈，上帝的烈怒終於臨到了他們頭上。

保羅渴望去帖撒羅尼迦

17 弟兄姊妹，我們暫時與你們分離，心靈卻與你們在一起。我們非常渴望見到你們。 18 我們想去你們那裡，我保羅也一次又一次地想去，只是遭到撒旦的攔阻。 19 我們主耶穌再來的時候，我們在祂面前的盼望、喜樂和可誇耀的冠冕是什麼呢？不就是你們嗎？ 20 因為你們是我們的榮耀和喜樂。

English Standard Version

Paul’s Ministry to the Thessalonians

1 For you yourselves know, brothers,* that our coming to you was not in vain. 2 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. 3 For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, 4 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. 5 For we never came with words of flattery,* as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness. 6 Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ. 7 But we were gentle* among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children. 8 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. 9 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. 10 You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers. 11 For you know how, like a father with his children, 12 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. 13 And we also thank God constantly* for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men* but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers. 14 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,* 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind 16 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!*

Paul’s Longing to See Them Again

17 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, 18 because we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, again and again—but Satan hindered us. 19 For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you? 20 For you are our glory and joy.

1.Thessalonicher 2 | 聖經當代譯本修訂版 English Standard Version

保羅在帖撒羅尼迦的工作

保羅渴望去帖撒羅尼迦

Paul’s Ministry to the Thessalonians

Paul’s Longing to See Them Again