^2:9For you recall, brothers and sisters,¹³ 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. ^2:10You are witnesses, and so is God, as to how holy and righteous and blameless our conduct was toward you who believe. ^2:11As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children, ^2:12exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory. ^2:13And so¹⁴ we too constantly thank God that when you received God’s message that you heard from us,¹⁵ you accepted it not as a human message,¹⁶ but as it truly is, God’s message, which is at work among you who believe. ^2:14For you became imitators, brothers and sisters,¹⁷ of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews, ^2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets¹⁸ and persecuted us severely.¹⁹ They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people, ^2:16because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins,²⁰ but wrath²¹ has come upon them completely.²²

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Footnotes

13 Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in .
14 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 …”
15 Grk “God’s word of hearing from us.”
16 Paul’s focus is their attitude toward the message he preached: They received it not as a human message but a message from God.
17 Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in .
18 ἰδίους (idious, “their own prophets”) is found in D1 Ψ 𝔐 sy McionT. This is obviously a secondary reading. Marcion’s influence may stand behind part of the tradition, but the Byzantine text probably added the adjective in light of its mention in v. 14 and as a clarification or interpretation of which prophets were in view.
19 Or “and drove us out” (cf. Acts 17:5–10).
20 Grk “to fill up their sins always.”
21 The Western text (D F G latt) adds τοῦ θεοῦ (tou theou) to ὀργή (orgē) to read “the wrath of God,” in emulation of the normal Pauline idiom (cf., e.g., Rom 1:18; Eph 5:6; Col 3:6) and, most likely, to clarify which wrath is in view (since ὀργή is articular). Or “the wrath,” possibly referring back to the mention of wrath in 1:10.
22 Or “at last.”