Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
For [you] yourselves know, brothers, our reception with you, that it was not in 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.
American Standard Version
For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it hath not been found vain:
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:
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 [you] yourselves know, brothers, our reception with you, that it was not in vain, 2 but [after we] had already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, just as you know, we had the courage in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much opposition.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 127:1
Unless Yahweh builds a house, its builders labor at it in vain. Unless Yahweh guards a city, a guard watches in vain.
Isaiah 49:4
But I myself said, "I have labored in vain; I have used up my strength for nothing and vanity! Nevertheless, my justice [is] with Yahweh, and my reward [is] with my God."
Isaiah 65:23
They shall not labor for nothing, and they shall not give birth to horror, for they {shall be offspring blessed by} Yahweh, and their descendants with them.
Habakkuk 2:13
Look! [Is it] not from Yahweh of hosts that people labor for mere fire, and nations exhaust themselves for mere vanity?
1 Corinthians 15:2
by which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the message I proclaimed to you, unless you believed to no purpose.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain, but I labored even more than all of them, and not I, but the grace of God with me.
1 Corinthians 15:58
So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, [because you] know that your labor is not [in] vain in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 6:1
Now [because we] are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
Galatians 2:2
Now I went up [there] because of a revelation and laid out to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but in private to the influential people, lest somehow I was running, or had run, in vain.
Galatians 4:11
I am afraid [for] you, lest perhaps I have labored for you in vain!
Philippians 2:16
holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
1 Thessalonians 1:3-10
[because we] remember your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,
1 Thessalonians 2:13
And because of this we also give thanks to God constantly, that [when you] received God's word {that you heard} from us, you accepted [it] not [as the] word of men, but as [it] truly is, [the] word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:5
Because of this, I also, [when I] could endure [it] no longer, sent in order to know your faith, lest somehow the tempter tempted you and our labor should be in vain.
2 Thessalonians 1:10
whenever he should come to be glorified on that day by his saints and to be marveled at by all who believe, because our testimony was believed among you,
2 Thessalonians 3:1
Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may progress and be honored, just as also [it was] with you,
Job 39:16
It deals cruelly with its young ones, as [if] [they were] not its [own], as [if] without fear [that] its labor [were] in vain,
Psalm 73:13
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure, and washed my hands in innocence.