1.Thessalonicher 2 | Nádej pre kazdého
1Milí bratia, sami najlepšie viete, že naša návšteva u vás nebola márna.2Viete, ako sme trpeli a akú potupu sme znášali vo Filipách. A predsa nám Boh dal odvahu zvestovať vám Božie radostné posolstvo, hoci sme boli obklopení nepriateľmi.3Vidíte teda, že za naším kázaním neboli nijaké pochybné ciele ani bočné úmysly, naša reč bola priama a úprimná.4Boh nás poveril úlohou hlásať jeho radostné posolstvo, a preto nechceme byť pekní v očiach ľudí, ale chceme sa páčiť Bohu, ktorý pozná aj najtajnejšie myšlienky nášho srdca.5Nikdy sme sa nepokúšali získať niekoho lichôtkami, ako dobre viete, ani sme predstieraným priateľstvom nemámili od nikoho peniaze, Boh nám je svedok.6Ani sme pre seba nepožadovali nijaké zvláštne pocty, hoci sme ako apoštoli mali akiste na vašu úctu nárok.7Skôr sme dali prednosť matersky láskavému a nežnému prístupu,8a tak sme si vás zamilovali, že by sme vám nielen Božie posolstvo odovzdali, ale dali za vás aj vlastný život.9Spomínate si ešte, milí bratia, ako tvrdo sme si zarábali u vás na každodenný chlieb? Vo dne v noci sme pracovali, aby sme pri hlásaní radostnej zvesti neboli nikomu na ťarchu.10Sami môžete dosvedčiť, aj Boh je svedkom, že sme s každým veriacim zaobchádzali poctivo, spravodlivo a čestne.11Ako otec vlastné deti, však sami viete,12sme vás povzbudzovali, usmerňovali a nabádali, aby ste žili na česť a radosť Bohu, ktorý vás povolal do svojho kráľovstva a do svojej slávy.13Preto znovu a znovu musíme Bohu ďakovať, že ste od nás prijali slovo Božej zvesti nie ako slovo ľudské, ale ako slovo Božie, že ste mu uverili a že premenilo aj vaše životy.14A potom sa vám stalo to isté, čo predtým zažili kresťania v Judsku, trpeli ste od vlastných krajanov.15Tam zabíjali Židia svojich vlastných prorokov, zabili aj Ježiša Krista a teraz zasa prenasledujú nás a odvšadiaľ nás vyháňajú. Škodia Bohu aj ľuďom.16My kážeme pohanom, ako sa môžu zachrániť, a oni nám v tom bránia. Ale miera ich hriechov sa čoskoro dovŕši a Boží trest ich neminie.
Apoštolova túžba
17Bratia, aj keď sme museli od vás na nejaký čas odísť – no v duchu sme stále s vami – rozmýšľali sme, ako sa k vám zasa čo najskôr vrátiť.18Ja, Pavol, som sa o to pokúšal už niekoľko ráz, ale vždy mi to satan prekazil.19Lebo kto bude našou radosťou, našou nádejou, našou odmenou, až budeme raz stáť pre Kristom v deň jeho návratu? Áno, vy ste naša sláva aj radosť!
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Paul’s Ministry to the Thessalonians
1For you yourselves know, brothers,* that our coming to you was not in vain.2But 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.3For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive,4but 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.5For we never came with words of flattery,* as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness.6Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ.7But we were gentle* among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.8So, 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.9For 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.10You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers.11For you know how, like a father with his children,12we 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.13And 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.14For 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,*15who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind16by 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
17But 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,18because we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, again and again—but Satan hindered us.19For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?20For you are our glory and joy.
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