1 Thessalonians 2

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For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain.

For yourselves, brethren, and your own consciences can abundantly testify, that our preaching amongst you was not in vain, but exceedingly effectual.

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To speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.

To speak unto you the Gospel of God, with much fervency of zeal, and with powerful opposition of the gainsayers.

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For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile.

For our teaching amongst you was not in a colloguing and colluding fashion, to make a gain secretly of you; neither was it in a plausible way of humouring uncleanness and impurity of living.

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Nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness.

Neither did I make my preaching as a colour or cloke of my covetous seeking for wealth, as if I aimed at my profit only, in my teaching.

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When we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

When we might have taken upon us, and have required a chargeable maintenance, and have borne a port, fit for the Apostles of Christ.

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But also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

Not the Gospel only, but our very lives also, which are worthy to be most dear and precious to us.

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That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

That ye would walk in so holy a manner, as might become those, whom God hath honoured with the high calling of Christianity, and to whom he hath intended to give so glorious a kingdom.

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For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:

For ye, brethren, became followers of those Christian Churches, which are planted in Judea: for ye also have suffered, from your countrymen of Thessalonica, the very same kind of persecutions, which they suffered of their countrymen, the Jews:

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Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

Which Jews, that ye may see and know ye have partners in all your sufferings and hard measures offered unto you, have proceeded very maliciously in their cruel persecutions: for they both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own holy Prophets; and have spitefully chased us, who are of their blood and na-

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Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

That they may make up that full measure of their own and their forefathers’ sins, upon the fulfilling whereof God hath intended to sweep them away with his judgments, by the hands of the Romans; and to execute his wrathful displeasure and vengeance upon them to the utmost.

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But Satan hindered us.

But Satan stirred up these envious Jews, to raise oppositions against me; and by these means hindered my journey to you.