1 Thessalonians 2New International Version (NIV)

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Thessalonians+2&version=NIV

1 Thessalonians 2New International Version (NIV)

Paul’s Ministry in Thessalonica

2 You know, brothers and sisters, that our visit to you was not without results. 2 We had previously suffered and been treated outrageously in Philippi, as you know, but with the help of our God we dared to tell you his gospel in the face of strong opposition. 3 For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives, nor are we trying to trick you. 4 On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel. We are not trying to please people but God, who tests our hearts. 5 You know we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover up greed—God is our witness. 6 We were not looking for praise from people, not from you or anyone else, even though as apostles of Christ we could have asserted our authority. 7 Instead, we were like young children[a] among you.
Just as a nursing mother cares for her children, 8 so we cared for you. Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well. 9 Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you. 10 You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless we were among you who believed. 11 For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children,12 encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.
13 And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe. 14 For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews15 who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone 16 in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit. The wrath of God has come upon them at last.[b]

Paul’s Longing to See the Thessalonians

17 But, brothers and sisters, when we were orphaned by being separated from you for a short time (in person, not in thought), out of our intense longing we made every effort to see you. 18 For we wanted to come to you—certainly I, Paul, did, again and again—but Satan blocked our way.19 For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not you? 20 Indeed, you are our glory and joy.

Footnotes:

  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:7 Some manuscripts were gentle
  2. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Or them fully
New International Version (NIV)
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Posts

So, the hegemony machines are arguing but they need to agree every so often. The issue is that when they do not agree, at least 100,000 Americans have to die in a war of some kind as arranged since 1901. In our current hegemony debate the Engine company with its machine in Germany has won the logic game again. There are only 4 people on any vehicle assembly line as workers any where in the world. But, the Fuel company's machine in America is just as resistant to change as Robert E. Lee. Abraham Lincoln was as logical as the engine company's machine but that was a different argument in another generation although the issue was also logic; not a way of life. The fuel company's machine is afraid of and resistant to change as it wants absolute control of the present and future but what good is fuel like whale oil if it cannot power the vehicle? The vehicle runs on hydrogen; maybe propane. The fuel company is resisting diversification but has already taken a strong stake in these other fuels(hydrogen and Propane) since they are being used widely in every other part of the world. There is a hydrogen pump on every major car dealership's property; for now anyway. Eventually, the pumps will be available elsewhere at Total gas stations or at Texaco or Fina in addition to Exxon Mobil. they have the best coffee. Are you tying to ambush people with a cup of coffee? Do it again? Do it again? What is the color of the gulf of Mexico after Blue Water horizon? Now, if the fuel company bought all the mobile phone companies in America, it would make much more profit than it now makes selling oil and gasoline from any source at all of its various stations in the world. If profit is your motive, who is resistant to change? But, if control is your motive then you might throw out the 100,000 or more high school graduates as soldiers in a war along with the hydrogen technology( the baby drivers with the bath water). The machine is eating human legs from dead soldiers dating back to WW 2 and the Vietnam soldiers did not help youthful regeneration since the Nam soldiers' legs had a lot of DDT. They might have run out of legs again but it has decided to eat sheep now that are 18 years old after the said sheep give birth to about three litters. This sounds like Science fiction but what is more unbelievable is that they stole my Audi a4(2002); innit? They thought it might have been secretive or special. Now, hydrogen fuel vehicles and the pumps and the economy offer the same cash savings as fuel free mobile phones. Just use the hydrogen! Just make the money nigga white troglodyte monkey Texa bouy! Rostrom clot! Now the last issue is that you don't believe, in your religious confusion, that people will work at all if there is no death economy that involves dirty oil rigs and fuel trucks and oil rail cars and ships. But, they will work and you will be sure to make them sweat doing something; even if it is standing at the airport as travel companions or personal assistants or androids with a bluetooth chip surgically plugged into their nose; innit? Now, the Vehicle company machine and the oil company machine need people to have $25,000.00 per year basic income or else there will be blood but for all the wrong reasons. You can give your George Washington High School graduate an additional $1000.00 per month as his retainer in his service agreement to sit at your back door and watch tv and enjoy your AC at night and he will also make breakfast while wearing his FUBU dress shirt. It looks like the GAP shirt though really; innit? This is in addition to his basic income and he will promise to buy only a Tacoma truck or the Ford built on the same platforms. Your son will buy the Lexus. So, chill Winston. Travel will grow as an industry. You will make them do something and your amazon stuff will arrive and maybe you will have people standing at your front door on basic income from the government and the society in which you live with its new socio-religious industrial complex as you speak in tongues that respect His(God's) wisdom; not your religious illiteracy as Abraham's adoption but not his in-grafted son by the Holy Spirit (Glory!!!!!!)since how could you be anything but the child of the devil if you refuse to enter Eden when God has shown you the way? Didn't He say he would show you a more excellent way? You are not impressing anyone while you plan to run off to a cave after you set the fuse to blow up the world! No, the legislation for basic income was passed in 1936 and is still legitimate in the United States. It was passed at the same time the Energy and Fuel company got into ensuring or backing the US government with the Crude Oil Standard.

Post a Comment