Verš 1
For you yourselves know, brothers, that our acceptance among you was not empty.
1Sol 1:5 - For our Gospel has not been among you in word alone, but also in virtue, and in the Holy Spirit, and with a great fullness, in the same manner as you know we have acted among you for your sake.
1Sol 1:9 - For others are reporting among us of the kind of acceptance we had among you, and how you were converted from idols to God, to the service of the living and true God,
Verš 2
Instead, having previously suffered and been treated shamefully, as you know, at Philippi, we had confidence in our God, so as to speak the Gospel of God to you with much solicitude.
Sk 16:22 - And the people rushed together against them. And the magistrates, tearing their tunics, ordered them to be beaten with staffs.
Sk 17:2 - Then Paul, according to custom, entered to them. And for three Sabbaths he disputed with them about the Scriptures,
Verš 4
But, just as we have been tested by God, so that the Gospel would be entrusted to us, so also did we speak, not so as to please men, but rather to please God, who tests our hearts.
Gal 1:10 - For am I now persuading men, or God? Or, am I seeking to please men? If I still were pleasing men, then I would not be a servant of Christ.
Verš 5
And neither did we, at any time, become flattering in speech, as you know, nor did we seek an opportunity for avarice, as God is witness.
Rim 1:9 - For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit by the Gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I have kept a remembrance of you
Rim 9:1 - I am speaking the truth in Christ; I am not lying. My conscience offers testimony to me in the Holy Spirit,
2Kor 1:23 - But I call God as a witness to my soul, that I was lenient with you, in that I did not return to Corinth:
2Kor 11:31 - The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
Gal 1:20 - Now what I am writing to you: behold, before God, I am not lying.
Flp 1:8 - For God is my witness how, within the heart of Jesus Christ, I long for all of you.
1Tim 5:21 - I testify before God and Christ Jesus and the elect Angels, that you should observe these things without prejudgment, doing nothing which shows favoritism to either side.
2Tim 4:1 - I testify before God, and before Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead through his return and his kingdom:
Verš 6
Nor did we seek the glory of men, neither from you, nor from others.
1Kor 9:3 - My defense with those who question me is this:
2Sol 3:9 - It was not as if we had no authority, but this was so that we might present ourselves as an example to you, in order to imitate us.
Verš 9
For you remember, 678 brothers, our hardship and weariness. We preached the Gospel of God among you, working night and day, so that we would not be burdensome to any of you.
Sk 18:3 - And because he was of the same trade, he lodged with them and was working. (Now they were tentmakers by trade.)
Sk 20:34 - as you yourselves know. For that which was needed by me and by those who are with me, these hands have provided.
1Kor 4:12 - And we labor, working with our own hands. We are slandered, and so we bless. We suffer and endure persecution.
2Kor 11:9 - And when I was with you and in need, I was burdensome to no one. For the 668 brothers who came from Macedonia supplied whatever was lacking to me. And in all things, I have kept myself, and I will keep myself, from being burdensome to you.
2Kor 12:13 - For what is there that you have had which is less than the other churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this injury.
2Sol 3:8 - Nor did we eat bread from anyone for free, but rather, we worked night and day, in hardship and weariness, so as not to be burdensome to you.
Verš 12
in which we were pleading with you and consoling you, bearing witness, so that you would walk in a manner worthy of God, who has called you into his kingdom and glory.
Gn 17:1 - In truth, after he began to be ninety-nine years of age, the Lord appeared to him. And he said to him: “I am the Almighty God. Walk in my sight and become complete.
1Kor 7:20 - Let each and every one remain in the same calling to which he was called.
Ef 4:1 - And so, as a prisoner in the Lord, I beg you to walk in a manner worthy of the vocation to which you have been called:
Flp 1:27 - Only let your behavior be worthy of the Gospel of Christ, so that, whether I return and see you, or whether, being absent, I hear about you, still you may stand firm with one spirit, with one mind, laboring together for the faith of the Gospel.
Kol 1:10 - so that you may walk in a manner worthy of God, being pleasing in all things, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God,
Verš 14
For you, brothers, have become imitators of the churches of God which are at Judea, in Christ Jesus. For you, too, have suffered the same things from your fellow countrymen as they have suffered from the Jews,
Sk 17:5 - But the Jews, being jealous, and joining with certain evildoers among the common men, caused a disturbance, and they stirred up the city. And taking up a position near the house of Jason, they sought to lead them out to the people.
Sk 17:13 - Then, when the Jews of Thessalonica had realized that the Word of God was also preached by Paul at Beroea, they went there also, stirring up and disturbing the multitude.
Verš 15
who also killed both the Lord Jesus, and the Prophets, and who have persecuted us. But they do not please God, and so they are adversaries to all men.
Sk 7:52 - Which of the Prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they killed those who foretold the advent of the Just One. And you have now become the betrayers and murderers of him.
Mt 23:37 - Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone those who have been sent to you. How often I have wanted to gather your children together, in the way that a hen gathers her young under her wings. But you were not willing!
Lk 13:34 - Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets, and you stone those who are sent to you. Daily, I wanted to gather together your children, in the manner of a bird with her nest under her wings, but you were not willing!
Verš 16
They prohibit us to speak to the Gentiles, so that they may be saved, and thus do they continually add to their own sins. But the wrath of God will overtake them in the very end.
Sk 17:13 - Then, when the Jews of Thessalonica had realized that the Word of God was also preached by Paul at Beroea, they went there also, stirring up and disturbing the multitude.
Verš 18
For we wanted to come to you, (indeed, I, Paul, attempted to do so once, and then again,) but Satan impeded us.
Rim 1:13 - But I want you to know, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you, (though I have been hindered even to the present time) so that I might obtain some fruit among you also, just as also among the other Gentiles.
Rim 15:22 - Because of this also, I was 656 greatly hindered in coming to you, and I have been prevented until the present time.
Verš 19
For what is our hope, and our joy, and our crown of glory? Is it not you, before our Lord Jesus Christ at his return?
2Kor 1:14 - And just as you have acknowledged us in our role, that we are your glory, so also you are ours, unto the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Flp 2:16 - holding to the Word of Life, until my glory in the day of Christ. For I have not run in vain, nor have I labored in vain.
Flp 4:1 - And so, my most beloved and most desired brothers, my joy and my crown: stand firm in this way, in the Lord, most beloved.
