Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it hath not been found vain:
New American Standard Bible
For you yourselves know, brethren, that our
King James Version
For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
Holman Bible
For you yourselves know, brothers, that our visit
International Standard Version
For you yourselves know, brothers, that our visit to you was not a waste of time.
A Conservative Version
For ye yourselves know, brothers, our entrance with you, that it has not become empty.
Amplified
For you know, brothers and sisters, that our coming to you has not been ineffective (fruitless, in vain),
An Understandable Version
For you brothers [should] know that our coming to you was not a waste of time.
Anderson New Testament
For you yourselves know, brethren, our entrance among you, that it was not in vain.
Bible in Basic English
For you yourselves, brothers, are conscious that our coming among you was not without effect:
Common New Testament
For you yourselves know, brethren, that our visit to you was not in vain;
Daniel Mace New Testament
And you are satisfied, my brethren, that our address to you was not fallacious:
Darby Translation
For ye know yourselves, brethren, our entering in which we had to you, that it has not been in vain;
Godbey New Testament
For you know, brethren, our coming unto you, that it was not in vain:
Goodspeed New Testament
You know yourselves, brothers, that our visit to you was far from ineffectual.
John Wesley New Testament
For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance to you, that it was not in vain: But even after we had suffered before,
Julia Smith Translation
For ye yourselves know, brethren, our entrance to you, that it was not in vain:
King James 2000
For yourselves, brethren, know our visit unto you, that it was not in vain:
Lexham Expanded Bible
For [you] yourselves know, brothers, our reception with you, that it was not in vain,
Modern King James verseion
For, my brothers, you yourselves know our coming in to you, that it was not in vain.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For ye yourselves brethren know of our entrance in unto you, how that it was not in vain:
Moffatt New Testament
But you remember yourselves, brothers, that our visit to you was no failure.
Montgomery New Testament
For you yourselves know, brothers, that my visit to you did not fail of its purpose;
NET Bible
For you yourselves know, brothers and sisters, about our coming to you -- it has not proven to be purposeless.
New Heart English Bible
For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you was not in vain,
Noyes New Testament
For ye yourselves know, brethren, that our coming among you hath not been in vain;
Sawyer New Testament
For you know, brothers, our introduction to you that it was not in vain,
The Emphasized Bible
For, yourselves, know, brethren, our entrance which was unto you - that it hath not proved void;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
FOR ye yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in to you, that it was not in vain.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Yes, Brothers, you yourselves know that your reception of us was not without result.
Webster
For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance to you, that it was not in vain:
Weymouth New Testament
For you yourselves, brethren, know that our visit to you did not fail of its purpose.
Williams New Testament
For you know yourselves, brothers, that our visit to you was by no means a failure.
World English Bible
For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn't in vain,
Worrell New Testament
For ye yourselves, brethren, know our entrance to you, that it has not become vain;
Worsley New Testament
For ye yourselves, brethren, know our entrance among you, that it was not in vain.
Youngs Literal Translation
For yourselves have known, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it did not become vain,
Interlinear
Eido
References
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Thessalonians 2:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul's Approach To Ministry In Thessalonica
1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it hath not been found vain: 2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 127:1
Except Jehovah build the house, They labor in vain that build it: Except Jehovah keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain.
Isaiah 49:4
But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely the justice due to me is with Jehovah, and my recompense with my God.
Isaiah 65:23
They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Jehovah, and their offspring with them.
Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
1 Corinthians 15:2
by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 6:1
And working together with him we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain
Galatians 2:2
And I went up by revelation; and I laid before them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles but privately before them who were of repute, lest by any means I should be running, or had run, in vain.
Galatians 4:11
I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.
Philippians 2:16
holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.
1 Thessalonians 1:3-10
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
1 Thessalonians 2:13
And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.
2 Thessalonians 1:10
when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be marvelled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day.
2 Thessalonians 3:1
Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as also it is with you;
Job 39:16
She dealeth hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers: Though her labor be in vain,'she is without fear;
Psalm 73:13
Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocency;