New American Standard Bible 2020

1 Thessalonians 2:1-4

1For you yourselves know, brothers and sisters, that our 1 2reception among you 3was not in vain,

2but after we had already suffered and been 4treated abusively in 5Philippi, as you know, we had the boldness in our God 6to speak to you the 7gospel of God 8amid much 9 10opposition.

3For our 11exhortation does not come from 12error or 13impurity or 14by way of 15deceit;

4 16but just as we have been approved by God to be 17entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, 18not intending to please people, but to please God, who 19 20examines our hearts.

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Notes

1. 1 Thessalonians 2:1 Or coming to you ↩
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 during ↩
9. 1 Thessalonians 2:2 Or struggle; or conflict ↩
10. 1 Thessalonians 2:2 Phil 1:30 ↩
11. 1 Thessalonians 2:3 Acts 13:15 ↩
12. 1 Thessalonians 2:3 2 Thess 2:11 ↩
13. 1 Thessalonians 2:3 1 Thess 4:7 ↩
14. 1 Thessalonians 2:3 Lit in deceit ↩
15. 1 Thessalonians 2:3 2 Cor 4:2 ↩
16. 1 Thessalonians 2:4 2 Cor 2:17 ↩
17. 1 Thessalonians 2:4 Gal 2:7 ↩
18. 1 Thessalonians 2:4 Gal 1:10 ↩
19. 1 Thessalonians 2:4 Or approves ↩
20. 1 Thessalonians 2:4 Rom 8:27 ↩

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