New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Thessalonians 2:1-4

1For you yourselves know, brethren, that our 1 2coming to you 3was not in vain,

2but after we had already suffered and been 4mistreated in 5Philippi, as you know, we had the boldness in our God 6to speak to you the 7gospel of God amid much 8 9opposition.

3For our 10exhortation does not come from 11error or 12impurity or 13by way of 14deceit;

4 15but just as we have been approved by God to be 16entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, 17not as pleasing men, but God who 18 19examines our hearts.

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Notes

1. 1 Thessalonians 2:1 Lit entrance ↩
2. 1 Thessalonians 2:1 1 Thess 1:9 ↩
3. 1 Thessalonians 2:1 2 Thess 1:10 ↩
4. 1 Thessalonians 2:2 Acts 14:5; 16:19-24; Phil 1:30 ↩
5. 1 Thessalonians 2:2 Acts 16:22-24 ↩
6. 1 Thessalonians 2:2 Acts 17:1-9 ↩
7. 1 Thessalonians 2:2 Rom 1:1 ↩
8. 1 Thessalonians 2:2 Or struggle, conflict ↩
9. 1 Thessalonians 2:2 Phil 1:30 ↩
10. 1 Thessalonians 2:3 Acts 13:15 ↩
11. 1 Thessalonians 2:3 2 Thess 2:11 ↩
12. 1 Thessalonians 2:3 1 Thess 4:7 ↩
13. 1 Thessalonians 2:3 Lit in deceit ↩
14. 1 Thessalonians 2:3 2 Cor 4:2 ↩
15. 1 Thessalonians 2:4 2 Cor 2:17 ↩
16. 1 Thessalonians 2:4 Gal 2:7 ↩
17. 1 Thessalonians 2:4 Gal 1:10 ↩
18. 1 Thessalonians 2:4 Or approves ↩
19. 1 Thessalonians 2:4 Rom 8:27 ↩

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