Moffatt(i)
1 But you remember yourselves, brothers, that our visit to you was no failure.
2 At Philippi, as you know, we had been ill-treated and insulted, but we took courage and confidence in our God to tell you the gospel of God in spite of all the strain.
3 For the appeal we make does not spring from any delusion or from impure motives — it does not work by cunning;
4 no, God has attested our fitness to be entrusted with the gospel, and so we tell the gospel not to satisfy men but to satisfy the God who tests our hearts.
5 We never resorted to flattery (you know that), nor to any pretext for self-seeking (God is witness to that);
6 we never sought honour from men, from you or from anybody else, though as apostles of Christ we had the power of claiming to be men of weight;
7 no, we behaved gently when we were among you, like a nursing mother cherishing her own children,
8 fain, in our yearning affection for you, to impart not only the gospel of God to you but our very souls as well — you had so won our love.
9 Brothers, you recollect our hard labour and toil, how we worked at our trade night and day, when we preached the gospel to you, so as not to be a burden to any of you.
10 You are witnesses, and so is God, to our behaviour among you believers, how pious and upright and blameless it was,
11 how (as you know) we treated each of you as a father treats his children, beseeching you, encouraging you, and charging you