1 Thessalonians 2:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,

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  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.
  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;
  • Phil 2:17 : 17 but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all,
  • Rom 1:11-12 : 11 for I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that ye may be established; 12 and that is, that I may be comforted together among you, through the faith in one another, both yours and mine.
  • Rom 9:1-3 : 1 Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart -- 3 for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ -- for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,
  • Rom 10:1 : 1 Brethren, the pleasure indeed of my heart, and my supplication that `is' to God for Israel, is -- for salvation;
  • Rom 15:29 : 29 and I have known that coming unto you -- in the fulness of the blessing of the good news of Christ I shall come.
  • 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 And working together also we call upon `you' that ye receive not in vain the grace of God --
  • 2 Cor 6:11-13 : 11 Our mouth hath been open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart hath been enlarged! 12 ye are not straitened in us, and ye are straitened in your `own' bowels, 13 and `as' a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say `it',) be ye enlarged -- also ye!
  • Gal 4:19 : 19 my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,
  • Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,
  • Jer 13:15-17 : 15 Hear, and give ear -- be not haughty, For Jehovah hath spoken. 16 Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed `it' for thick darkness. 17 And if ye do not hear it, In secret places doth my soul weep, because of pride, Yea, it weepeth sore, And the tear cometh down mine eyes, For the flock of Jehovah hath been taken captive.
  • Phil 2:20 : 20 for I have no one like-minded, who sincerely for the things concerning you will care,
  • Phil 2:25-26 : 25 And I thought `it' necessary Epaphroditus -- my brother, and fellow-workman, and fellow-soldier, and your apostle and servant to my need -- to send unto you, 26 seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed,
  • Phil 4:1 : 1 So then, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand ye in the Lord, beloved.
  • Col 1:7 : 7 as ye also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful ministrant of the Christ,
  • Col 1:28 : 28 whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,
  • Col 4:12 : 12 Salute you doth Epaphras, who `is' of you, a servant of Christ, always striving for you in the prayers, that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God,
  • Phlm 1:1 : 1 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timotheus the brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow-worker,
  • Heb 13:17 : 17 Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this `is' unprofitable to you.
  • Luke 7:2 : 2 and a certain centurion's servant being ill, was about to die, who was much valued by him,
  • Acts 20:23-24 : 23 save that the Holy Spirit in every city doth testify fully, saying, that for me bonds and tribulations remain; 24 but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.

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    9 for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

    10 ye `are' witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

    11 even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

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    1 For yourselves have known, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it did not become vain,

    2 but having both suffered before, and having been injuriously treated (as ye have known) in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the good news of God in much conflict,

    3 for our exhortation `is' not out of deceit, nor out of uncleanness, nor in guile,

    4 but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

    5 for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God `is' witness!)

    6 nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.

    7 But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,

  • 17 And we, brethren, having been taken from you for the space of an hour -- in presence, not in heart -- did hasten the more abundantly to see your face in much desire,

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    3 because, according to `their' power, I testify, and above `their' power, they were willing of themselves,

    4 with much entreaty calling on us to receive the favour and the fellowship of the ministration to the saints,

    5 and not according as we expected, but themselves they did give first to the Lord, and to us, through the will of God,

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    5 because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,

    6 and ye -- ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

    7 so that ye became patterns to all those believing in Macedonia and Achaia,

    8 for from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God did go forth, so that we have no need to say anything,

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    8 nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;

    9 not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

  • 15 and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.

  • 4 for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

  • 8 For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above `our' power, so that we despaired even of life;

  • 8 who also did declare to us your love in the Spirit.

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    6 And now Timotheus having come unto us from you, and having declared good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us always, desiring much to see us, as we also `to see' you,

    7 because of this we were comforted, brethren, over you, in all our tribulation and necessity, through your faith,

  • 8 not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,

  • 3 not to condemn you do I say `it', for I have said before that in our hearts ye are to die with and to live with;

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    7 for we have much joy and comfort in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

    8 Wherefore, having in Christ much boldness to command thee that which is fit --

  • 8 For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,

  • 19 and not only so, but who was also appointed by vote by the assemblies, our fellow-traveller, with this favour that is ministered by us, unto the glory of the same Lord, and your willing mind;

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    1 Wherefore no longer forbearing, we thought good to be left in Athens alone,

    2 and did send Timotheus -- our brother, and a ministrant of God, and our fellow-workman in the good news of the Christ -- to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

  • 12 For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

  • 10 night and day exceedingly beseeching, that we might see your face, and perfect the things lacking in your faith.

  • 14 for not as not reaching to you do we stretch ourselves overmuch, for even unto you did we come in the good news of the Christ,

  • 19 Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, `are' for your up-building,

  • 7 and not only in his presence, but also in the comfort with which he was comforted over you, declaring to us your longing desire, your lamentation, your zeal for me, so that the more I did rejoice,

  • 5 for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

  • 17 because indeed the exhortation he accepted, and being more diligent, of his own accord he went forth unto you,

  • 16 and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,

  • 26 seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed,

  • 24 the shewing therefore of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf, to them shew ye, even in the face of the assemblies.

  • 15 and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,

  • 20 for ye are our glory and joy.

  • 12 for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have `something' in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;

  • 11 for I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that ye may be established;

  • 1 As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,