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1 Thessalonians 2:10

James Moffatt - New Testament

You are witnesses, and so is God, to our behaviour among you believers, how pious and upright and blameless it was,

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not by way of lording it over your charges but proving a pattern to the flock.

for our gospel came to you not with mere words but also with power and with the holy Spirit, with ample conviction on our part (you know what we were to you, for your own good),

My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.

Now you have followed my teaching, my practice, my aims, my faith, my patience, my love, my stedfastness,

When they came to him, he said, "You know quite well how I lived among you all the time ever since I set foot in Asia,

Let no one slight you because you are a youth, but set the believers an example of speech, behaviour, love, faith, and purity.

For you know quite well how to copy us; we did not loaf in your midst,

We never resorted to flattery (you know that), nor to any pretext for self-seeking (God is witness to that);

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do.

Make a place for me in your hearts; I have wronged no one, ruined no one, taken advantage of no one.

Hence I too endeavour to have a clear conscience before God and men all the time.

Therefore do I protest before you this day that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you;

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed for ever, He knows I am telling the truth!

If I 'appeal to the interests of men,' then, it is with the fear of the Lord before my mind. What I am is plain to God without disguise, plain also, I trust, to your own conscience.

I disown those practices which very shame conceals from view; I do not go about it craftily; I do not falsify the word of God; I state the truth openly and so commend myself to every man's conscience before God.

And we suffer justly; we are getting what we deserve for our deeds. But he has done no harm."




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