Catholic Public Domain Version
" For you yourselves know, brothers, that our acceptance among you was not empty. "
— 1 Thessalonians 2:1, Catholic Public Domain Version
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“For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:”
For you yourselves know, brothers, that our acceptance among you was not empty.
Instead, having previously suffered and been treated shamefully, as you know, at Philippi, we had confidence in our God, so as to speak the Gospel of God to you with much solicitude.
For our exhortation was not in error, nor from impurity, nor with deception.
But, just as we have been tested by God, so that the Gospel would be entrusted to us, so also did we speak, not so as to please men, but rather to please God, who tests our hearts.