| 2:1 | For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain: |
| 2:2 | But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention. |
| 2:3 | For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: |
| 2:4 | But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. |
| 2:5 | For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: |
| 2:6 | Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. |
| 2:7 | But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: |
| 2:8 | So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. |
| 2:9 | For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. |
| 2:10 | Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe: |
| 2:11 | As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, |
| 2:12 | That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. |
| 2:13 | For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. |
| 2:14 | For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: |
| 2:15 | 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: |
| 2:15 | 這猶太人殺了主耶穌和先知、又把我們趕出去．他們不得 神的喜悅、且與眾人為敵． |
| 2:15 | 这犹太人杀了主耶稣和先知，又把我们赶出去。他们不得神的喜悦，且与众人为敌。 |
| mat:23:31 | Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. |
| act:2:23 | Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: |
| act:3:15 | And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. |
| act:7:52 | Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: |
| jer:2:30 | In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. |
| mat:5:12 | Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. |
| act:13:50 | But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts. |
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| 2:16 | 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. |
| 2:17 | But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire. |
| 2:18 | Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us. |
| 2:19 | For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? |
| 2:20 | For ye are our glory and joy. |
