帖撒罗尼迦前书 2
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
保罗在帖撒罗尼迦的工作
2 弟兄们,你们都知道,我们进到你们那里,并不是白费工夫的。 2 我们从前在腓立比虽然受了苦,又被凌辱,可是靠着我们的 神,在强烈的反对之下,仍然放胆向你们述说 神的福音,这是你们知道的。 3 我们的呼吁,不是错谬的,不是污秽的,也没有诡诈。 4 相反地, 神既然考验过我们,把福音委托给我们,我们就传讲,不像是讨人欢心的,而是讨那察验我们心思的 神的喜悦。 5 我们从来不说奉承的话,这是你们知道的, 神可以作证,我们并没有借故起贪心, 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。 8 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。 9 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。 10 我们对你们信的人是多么圣洁、公义、无可指摘,这是你们和 神都可以作证的。 11 正如你们知道的,我们是怎样好象父亲对待儿女一样对待你们各人: 12 劝勉你们,鼓励你们,叮嘱你们,要你们行事为人,配得上那召你们进入他的国和荣耀的 神。
13 我们也为这缘故不住感谢 神,因为你们接受了我们所传的 神的道,不认为这是人的道,而认为这确实是 神的道。这道也运行在你们信的人里面。 14 弟兄们,你们好象犹太地在基督耶稣里 神的众教会一样,他们怎样遭受犹太人的迫害,你们也照样遭受同族人的迫害。 15 这些犹太人杀了主耶稣和众先知,又把我们赶出来。他们得不到 神的喜悦,并且和所有的人作对, 16 阻挠我们向外族人传道,不让他们得救,以致恶贯满盈。 神的忿怒终必临到他们身上。
保罗渴望再访帖撒罗尼迦
17 弟兄们,我们被迫暂时离开你们,不过是身体离开,心却没有离开。我们非常渴望再见到你们。 18 因此,我们很想到你们那里去,我保罗也一再想去,只是撒但阻挡了我们。 19 我们主耶稣再来的时候,我们在他面前的盼望、喜乐或所夸耀的冠冕是甚么呢?不就是你们吗? 20 是的,你们就是我们的荣耀,我们的喜乐。
帖 撒 羅 尼 迦 前 書 2
Chinese New Testament: Easy-to-Read Version
保罗在帖撒罗尼迦的工作
2 兄弟们,你们自己知道,我们对你们的访问不是一个失败。 2 而是正如你们所知的那样,我们以前在腓立比遭受了痛苦与侮辱,但是,在上帝的帮助下,我们恢复了勇气,顶住了强大的阻力,向你们宣讲了上帝的福音。 3 的确,我们传教的目的不是出于欺骗和不纯的动机,也不是企图愚弄任何人。 4 相反,做为得到上帝称赞的人,我们受到传播福音的委托,因此要讲话。我们不是在企图讨好凡人,而是要让检验我们动机的上帝满意。 5 正如你们所知,在你们面前,我们从未用过奉承的语言,也从未以传教为借口来掩盖贪婪,上帝就是我们的证人! 6 我们也没有寻求人们的称赞,无论是你们的,还是其他人的。
7 尽管我们做为基督的使徒 [a]可以对你们发号施令,但是我们在你们中间却很和气 [b],就像母亲慈爱地照顾孩子一样。 8 由于我们对你们深厚的爱,我们不但愿意与你们分享上帝的福音,甚至愿意为你们献出我们的生命,因为你们对我们是如此地珍贵。 9 兄弟们,要记住我们的辛苦和艰难。我们在向你们传播上帝的福音时,日以继夜地辛劳,为的是不给你们任何人增添负担。
10 你们是见证人,上帝也是见证人。我们和你们这些信徒在一起时的行为是虔诚、正义和无可指责的。 11 正如你们熟知的一样,我们待你们每一个人,就像父亲待自己的子女那样。 12 我们鼓励你们,安慰你们,督促要使你们的生活方式令召唤你们进入他的王国和荣耀的上帝满意。
13 为此,我们也要继续感谢上帝,因为当你们领受到从我们这里听到的上帝的信息时,你们领受的不是人的信息,而实际上是上帝的信息,这信息在信徒中工作着。 14 兄弟们,你们应该以在犹太信仰基督耶稣的上帝的教会为榜样,因为你们都遭遇了同样的患难,就像你们一样,他们也从自己的犹太同胞那里遭受到了苦难。 15 这些犹太人杀害了主耶稣和先知,把我们赶出家园,他们不但没有令上帝满意,而且也在与全人类为敌。 16 他们企图阻止我们教导非教徒,不让他们得到拯救的信息。他们不断地犯罪,几乎到了恶贯满盈的地步,上帝的愤怒现在终于彻底地降临到他们身上了。
保罗希望再次访问他们
17 至于我们,兄弟们,我们与你们暂时分别一段时间,(这只是身体上的分离,但在思想上却没有分开),我们迫切地期待着见到你们。 18 我们曾努力要来拜访你们。的确,我,保罗,不止一次要去探望你们,但都受到了撒旦的阻挠。 19 当我们的主耶稣基督来临时,你们难道不是我们的希望、快乐和我们为此骄傲的桂冠吗? 20 你们是我们的荣耀和快乐。
Footnotes
- 帖 撒 羅 尼 迦 前 書 2:7 使徒: 受耶稣所选,用特殊的方式代表他的人。
- 帖 撒 羅 尼 迦 前 書 2:7 许多古版为“但是我们在你们当中却是婴儿。”
Kehillah in Thessalonika I 2
Orthodox Jewish Bible
2 But you yourselves know, Chaverim b’Moshiach, that our initial reception with you was not empty of result.
2 On the contrary, having suffered before and having been shamefully persecuted (as you know) in Philippi, we had the chozek b’Eloheinu (strength in our G-d) to speak to you the Besuras HaGeulah of Hashem in the face of tzorrim rabbim (great and oppressive enemy opposition).
3 For our appeal, our eidus (witness of testimony), does not spring from toyus (error) or meshuga delusion or from tum’a (uncleanness) or from remiyah (guile, deceit).
4 On the contrary, in this way we speak: as persons examined and approved by G-d to be entrusted with the Besuras HaGeulah of Hashem, as striving to please not men but Hashem who tests, who examines, our levavot.
5 Nor did we ever come with divrei chanuppah (words of flattery), as you know, nor with pretext for chamdanut (greed)‖Der Oybershter is mine eidus! (G-d is my witness!)
6 Nor seeking kavod from men, neither from you nor from others.
7 Even though we had the samchut [authority] to be able to throw our weight around as Shlichim (Emissaries) of Moshiach, yet we became anav (humble) and eidel (gentle) among you, as a nursing imma (mother) might take care of her own yeladim.
8 Thus having a tshuka (yearning) for you, it was our good pleasure to share with you not only the Besuras HaGeulah of Hashem, but also our very lives, because you became beloved chaverim to us.
9 For remember, Achim b’Moshiach, our labor and toil yomam valailah working for the purpose of not weighing down any one of you while we maggidim [for Moshiach] made the Hachrazah (Proclamation, Kerygma) to you of the Besuras HaGeulah of Hashem.
10 You were edim (witnesses) and so is Hashem, with what kedushah and tzedek and tamim manner of shomer masoret we acted toward you ma’aminim b’Moshiach,
11 For you know how we treated you, as an abba treats his own yeladim,
12 Exhorting you with divrei chizzuk and comforting you, addressing you with solemn edut (testimony) that you let your derech (way of life), your hitnahagut (conduct), be to fier zich (comport oneself) in a manner worthy of Hashem, who summons you to His own Malchut and Kavod.
13 And for this reason also we constantly offer hodayah to Hashem that when you received (as “Ani Maamin” authoritative teaching) the Dvar Hashem, the Word of Hachrazah (Proclamation, Kerygma) from us, you received it not as the dvar HaBnei Adam but, as it actually is, the Dvar Hashem, which also is at work in you who have emunah.
14 For you became imitators, Chaverim, of the kehillot Hashem in Moshiach Yehoshua which are in Yehudah, because you also were similarly persecuted by your own landslait, just as also they were by the ones in Yehudah,
15 Even the ones who caused the histalkus of [Moshiach] Adoneinu Yehoshua and killed the Nevi’im and persecuted us [Shlichim] severely. Indeed, they are not pleasing Hashem and are hostile to kol Bnei Adam,
16 By hindering us from speaking to the Goyim in order that the Goyim might find Yeshu’at Eloheinu. Thus they always make complete their peysha’im. So the charon af, the burning wrath, the furious retribution of Hashem has overtaken them at last.
17 But you, Achim b’Moshiach, while we were separated from you for a short time (panim el panim, not b’lev), we made all the more effort in much desire to see your penemer (faces).
18 For we wanted to come to you. Indeed I, [Rav] Sha’ul, did again and again; but Hasatan hindered us.
19 For who is our tikvah or simcha or crown to glory in before Adoneinu Yehoshua at His Parousia, at the Bias Moshiach‖is it not you?
20 For you are our kavod and simcha.
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