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6-7 也没有向你们或别人求取人的荣誉。我们身为基督使徒的,虽然有权利受人尊敬,但我们在你们中间却是谦和的,就像母亲乳养自己的孩子。 我们这样疼爱你们,不但乐意把 神的福音传给你们,连自己的性命也乐意给你们,因为你们是我们所爱的。 弟兄们,你们应该记得我们的辛苦和劳碌;我们把 神的福音传给你们的时候,怎样昼夜作工,免得你们有人受累。

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kahit may karapatan kaming tumanggap nito bilang mga apostol ni Cristo. Sa halip, naging maaruga kami sa inyo tulad ng isang mapagkalingang ina sa mga anak niya. At dahil mahal namin kayo, hindi lang ang Magandang Balita ang malugod naming ibinigay sa inyo kundi pati na rin ang buhay namin, dahil napamahal na kayo sa amin. Tiyak na natatandaan nʼyo pa, mga kapatid, ang pagsisikap namin noong nasa inyo pa kami. Habang ipinangangaral namin ang Magandang Balita ng Dios, araw-gabi kaming nagtatrabaho para hindi kami maging pabigat sa inyo.

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Instead, we were like young children[a] among you.

Just as a nursing mother cares for her children,(A) so we cared for you. Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God(B) but our lives as well.(C) Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our toil and hardship; we worked(D) night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone(E) while we preached the gospel of God to you.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:7 Some manuscripts were gentle

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

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