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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 2
True ministers preach in a godly manner—Converts are the glory and
joy of missionaries.
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1 FOR yourselves,
brethren, know our aentrance in unto you, that it was not
in vain:
2 But even after that we had suffered before,
and were shamefully aentreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we
were bold in our God to bspeak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
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3 For our exhortation was not of
adeceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in
bguile:
4 But as we were aallowed of
God to be bput in ctrust with the gospel,
even so we dspeak; not as epleasing men,
but Goda, which
ftrieth our hearts.
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4a speak; not as pleasing men, but
God The wicked will find the word of God hard aganst them, that the
things which do please the desires of the natural and carnal man are not of
God. Yet if a man is in his mind and heart of the nature of God and his spirit
then will such a man find the words of God pleasing unto that which is in him,
in his spirit which is of God. Those who object to the words of direction and
warning of God's servants are those who do seek after such as is of the carnal
and natural man and not of God. Such is the objection of those who seek the
lust of forincation, of sexual relations outside of marriage and between a
man and a woman in such a marriage which is ordained of God. Elder Packer's
conference address of October 2010 is of such, he speaking as pleasing God
and not the vain natual and carnal desires of man, thus not so pleasing such
things of such men.
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5 For neither at any time used we
aflattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of
bcovetousness; God is witness:
6 Nor of men sought we
aglory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we
might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
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7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we
were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also
our own asouls, because ye were dear unto us.
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9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and
atravail: for blabouring night and day,
because we would not be cchargeable unto any of you, we
preached unto you the gospel of God.
10 Ye are awitnesses,
and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved
ourselves among you that believe:
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11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted
and charged every one of you, as a father doth his
achildren,
12 That ye would awalk
bworthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
13 For this cause also
athank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received
the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the
word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually
worketh also in you that believe.
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14 For ye, brethren, became
afollowers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in
Christ Jesus: for ye also have bsuffered like things of
your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
15 Who both akilled the Lord
Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not
God, and are contrary to all men:
16 aForbidding us to speak
to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins
balway: for the wrath is come upon them to the
uttermost.
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17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for
a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to
see your aface with great desire.
18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or
crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus
Christ at his acoming?
20 For ye are our glory and joy.
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