1 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain, 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 is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception. 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 neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness), 6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ. 7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

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 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 with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe. 11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children, 12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

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 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 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 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 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 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 rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming? 20 For you are our glory and our joy.

1 弟兄们， 你们都知道， 我们进到你们那里， 并不是白费工夫的。

2 我们从前在腓立比虽然受了苦， 又被凌辱， 可是靠着我们的 神， 在强烈的反对之下， 仍然放胆向你们述说 神的福音， 这是你们知道的。

3 我们的呼吁， 不是错谬的， 不是污秽的， 也没有诡诈。

4 相反地， 神既然考验过我们， 把福音委托给我们， 我们就传讲， 不像是讨人欢心的， 而是讨那察验我们心思的 神的喜悦。

5 我们从来不说奉承的话， 这是你们知道的， 神可以作证， 我们并没有借故起贪心，

6 也没有向你们或别人求取人的荣誉。

7 我们身为基督使徒的， 虽然有权利受人尊敬， 但我们在你们中间却是谦和的， 就像母亲乳养自己的孩子。

8 我们这样疼爱你们， 不但乐意把 神的福音传给你们， 连自己的性命也乐意给你们， 因为你们是我们所爱的。

9 弟兄们， 你们应该记得我们的辛苦和劳碌； 我们把 神的福音传给你们的时候， 怎样昼夜作工， 免得你们有人受累。

10 我们对你们信的人是多么圣洁、公义、无可指摘， 这是你们和 神都可以作证的。

11 正如你们知道的， 我们是怎样好像父亲对待儿女一样对待你们各人：

12 劝勉你们， 鼓励你们， 叮嘱你们， 要你们行事为人， 配得上那召你们进入他的国和荣耀的 神。

13 我们也为这缘故不住感谢 神， 因为你们接受了我们所传的 神的道， 不认为这是人的道， 而认为这确实是 神的道。这道也运行在你们信的人里面。

14 弟兄们， 你们好像犹太地在基督耶稣里 神的众教会一样， 他们怎样遭受犹太人的迫害， 你们也照样遭受同族人的迫害。

15 这些犹太人杀了主耶稣和众先知， 又把我们赶出来。他们得不到 神的喜悦， 并且和所有的人作对，

16 阻挠我们向外族人传道， 不让他们得救， 以致恶贯满盈。 神的忿怒终必临到他们身上。

17 弟兄们， 我们被迫暂时离开你们， 不过是身体离开， 心却没有离开。我们非常渴望再见到你们。

18 因此， 我们很想到你们那里去， 我保罗也一再想去， 只是撒但阻挡了我们。

19 我们主耶稣再来的时候， 我们在他面前的盼望、喜乐或所夸耀的冠冕是什么呢？不就是你们吗？

20 是的， 你们就是我们的荣耀， 我们的喜乐。