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1 Thessalonians 2:10

Weymouth NT

You yourselves are witnesses –and God is witness– how holy and upright and blameless our dealings with you believers were.

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And we indeed are suffering justly, for we are receiving due requital for what we have done. But He has done nothing amiss.«

Upon their arrival he said to them, »You Elders well know, from the first day of my setting foot in the province of Asia, the kind of life I lived among you the whole time,

Therefore I protest to you to-day that I am not responsible for the ruin of any one of you.

This too is my own earnest endeavour–always to have a clear conscience in relation to God and man.

For the reason for our boasting is this–the testimony of our own conscience that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, and in reliance not on worldly wisdom but on the gracious help of God, that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and above all in our relations with you.

And why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do.

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ –He who is blessed throughout the Ages– knows that I am speaking the truth.

Nay, we have renounced the secrecy which marks a feeling of shame. We practice no cunning tricks, nor do we adulterate God's Message. But by a full clear statement of the truth we strive to commend ourselves in the presence of God to every human conscience.

Therefore, because we realize how greatly the Lord is to be feared, we are endeavouring to win men over, and God recognizes what our motives are, and I hope that you, in your hearts, recognize them too.

Make room for us in your hearts. There is not one of you whom we have wronged, not one to whom we have done harm, not one over whom we have gained any selfish advantage.

The Good News that we brought you did not come to you in words only, but also with power and with the Holy Spirit and with much certainty, for you know the sort of men we became among you, as examples for your sakes.

For, as you are well aware, we have never used the language of flattery nor have we found pretexts for enriching ourselves–God is our witness;

For you yourselves know that it is your duty to follow our example. There was no disorder in our lives among you,

Let no one think slightingly of you because you are a young man; but in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, be an example for your fellow Christians to imitate.

But you have intimately known my teaching, life, aims, faith, patience, love, resignation,

not lording it over your Churches but proving yourselves patterns for the flock to imitate.




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