2: 2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.
2: 3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
2: 4 but even as we have been approved of God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.
2: 5 For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;
2: 6 nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have 8claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
8Or, been burdensome See vs. 9; cf. 1Co 9:4ff.
2: 7 But we were 9babes in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:
9So p65ℵ*BC* I copbo. A 1739 33 81 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., copfay arm read gentle
2: 8 even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.
2: 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
2: 10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and righteously and unblamably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe:
2: 11 as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and witnessing,
2: 12 to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who 10calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.
10So B 1739 33 81 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss. But ℵA copsa,bo,fay arm vg read called
2: 13 And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us 11the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.
11Gk. a word of hearing, Ga 3:2, 5.
2: 14 For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;
2: 15 who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;
2: 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
2: 17 But we, brethren, being bereaved of you for 12a short season, in seeing your face not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face with great desire:
12Gk. a season of an hour,
2: 18 because we wished to come unto you, I Paul once and again; and Satan hindered us.
2: 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus in his presence?
2: 20 For ye are our glory and our joy.
