1 Tesalonika 2:9-13

2:9 For you recall, brothers and sisters, ¹  our toil and drudgery: By working night and day so as not to impose a burden on any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God. 2:10 You are witnesses, and so is God, as to how holy and righteous and blameless our conduct was toward you who believe. 2:11 As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children, 2:12 exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory. 2:13 And so ²  we too constantly thank God that when you received God’s message that you heard from us, ³  you accepted it not as a human message, ⁴  but as it truly is, God’s message, which is at work among you who believe.

[2:9]  ¹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:4.

[2:13]  ² tn Grk “for this reason,” which seems to look back to Paul’s behavior just described. But it may look forward to v. 13b and mean: “and here is another reason that we constantly thank God: that…”

[2:13]  ³ tn Grk “God’s word of hearing from us.”

[2:13]  ⁴ tn Paul’s focus is their attitude toward the message he preached: They received it not as a human message but a message from God.