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in this manner longing-affectionately for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the good-news of God, but also our own lives[a], because you became beloved ones to us. For you remember, brothers, our labor and hardship— working by night and by day so-as not to be a burden-on[b] any of you, we proclaimed to you the good-news of God. 10 You and God are witnesses how devoutly and righteously and blamelessly we were with[c] you, the ones believing—

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:8 Or, souls. That is, expend our own lives; or, join our own souls with yours in love.
  2. 1 Thessalonians 2:9 Or, put a weight on, weigh heavily on. That is, a financial burden.
  3. 1 Thessalonians 2:10 Or, to, toward.

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