1 TH 2:8 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) So in longing for you all like that, we were happy to share with you all—not only the good message from God, but also exposing our own lives because you all became dear to us.

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor, cyan:dative/indirect object, red:negative.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT Longing for you in this manner, we were pleased to share with you not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls. For you became beloved to us.

UST Since we care for you in those ways, we delighted to share the good news from God with you. Even more, we delighted to share our own lives with you. That is because we started to love you very much.

BSB We cared so deeply [that] we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God, but our own lives as well. That is how beloved you have become to us.

BLB So yearning over you, we were pleased to have imparted to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives, because you have become beloved to us.

AICNT In this way, longing for you, we were pleased to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own souls, because you became beloved to us.

OEB In our strong affection for you, that seemed to us the best way of sharing with you, not only God’s good news, but our lives as well – so dear had you become to us.

WEBBE Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET with such affection for you we were happy to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.

LSV so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because you have become beloved to us,

FBV We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not just God's good news, but also our very own selves, because you had become so dear to us.

TCNT We had such strong affection for you that we were pleased to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become dear to us.

T4T So, because we love you, we were delighted to personally tell you the good message that God gave us. But also we were delighted to lovingly do all that we could do to help you [SYN] because ◄you had become very dear to us/we had begun to love you very much►.

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BBE Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us.

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Wymth Seeing that we were thus drawn affectionately towards you, it would have been a joy to us to have imparted to you not only God's Good News, but to have given our very lives also, because you had become very dear to us.

ASV even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.

DRA So desirous of you, we would gladly impart unto you not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls: because you were become most dear unto us.

YLT so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,

Drby Thus, yearning over you, we had found our delight in having imparted to you not only the glad tidings of [fn]God, but our own lives also, because ye had become beloved of us.

2.8 Elohim

RV even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.
(even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye/you_all were become very dear to us. )

SLT So longing for you, we are contented to impart to you, not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because ye are dearly beloved to us.

Wbstr So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted to you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear to us.

KJB-1769 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
(So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye/you_all were dear unto us. )

KJB-1611 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to haue imparted vnto you, not the Gospel of God only, but also our owne soules, because ye were deare vnto vs.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation)

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Gnva Thus being affectioned toward you, our good will was to haue dealt vnto you, not the Gospel of God onely, but also our owne soules, because ye were deare vnto vs.
(Thus being affectioned toward you, our good will was to have dealt unto you, not the Gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye/you_all were dear unto us. )

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TNT so was oure affeccion towarde you oure good will was to have dealte vnto you not the gospell of God only: but also oure awne soules because ye were deare vnto vs.
(so was our affeccion toward you our good will was to have dealt unto you not the gospel of God only: but also our own souls because ye/you_all were dear unto us. )

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ClVg Ita desiderantes vos, cupide volebamus tradere vobis non solum Evangelium Dei, sed etiam animas nostras: quoniam carissimi nobis facti estis.
(Ita desiderantes you, cupide volebamus tradere to_you not/no solum the_Gospel of_God, but also souls ours: since/because carissimi us made you_are. )

UGNT οὕτως ὁμειρόμενοι ὑμῶν, εὐδοκοῦμεν μεταδοῦναι ὑμῖν, οὐ μόνον τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰς ἑαυτῶν ψυχάς, διότι ἀγαπητοὶ ἡμῖν ἐγενήθητε.
(houtōs homeiromenoi humōn, eudokoumen metadounai humin, ou monon to euangelion tou Theou, alla kai tas heautōn psuⱪas, dioti agapaʸtoi haʸmin egenaʸthaʸte.)

SBL-GNT οὕτως ὁμειρόμενοι ὑμῶν εὐδοκοῦμεν μεταδοῦναι ὑμῖν οὐ μόνον τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ θεοῦ ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰς ἑαυτῶν ψυχάς, διότι ἀγαπητοὶ ἡμῖν ⸀ἐγενήθητε.
(houtōs homeiromenoi humōn eudokoumen metadounai humin ou monon to euangelion tou theou alla kai tas heautōn psuⱪas, dioti agapaʸtoi haʸmin ⸀egenaʸthaʸte.)

RP-GNT οὕτως, ὁμειρόμενοι ὑμῶν, εὐδοκοῦμεν μεταδοῦναι ὑμῖν οὐ μόνον τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ θεοῦ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰς ἑαυτῶν ψυχάς, διότι ἀγαπητοὶ ἡμῖν γεγένησθε.
(houtōs, homeiromenoi humōn, eudokoumen metadounai humin ou monon to euangelion tou theou, alla kai tas heautōn psuⱪas, dioti agapaʸtoi haʸmin gegenaʸsthe.)

TC-GNT οὕτως, [fn]ὁμειρόμενοι ὑμῶν, [fn]εὐδοκοῦμεν μεταδοῦναι ὑμῖν οὐ μόνον τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰς ἑαυτῶν ψυχάς, διότι ἀγαπητοὶ ἡμῖν [fn]γεγένησθε.
(houtōs, homeiromenoi humōn, eudokoumen metadounai humin ou monon to euangelion tou Theou, alla kai tas heautōn psuⱪas, dioti agapaʸtoi haʸmin gegenaʸsthe. )

2:8 ομειρομενοι ¦ ιμειρομενοι PCK TR

2:8 ευδοκουμεν ¦ ηυδοκουμεν WH

2:8 γεγενησθε ¦ εγενηθητε CT

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

οὕτως

thus

Here, the phrase in this manner could: (1) refer back to what Paul said in the previous verse about how he and his fellow workers love and care for the Thessalonians as if they were the Thessalonians’ mothers. Alternate translation: [in that very way] or [as a mother does] (2) make the word longing stronger. Alternate translation: [so very much] (3) refer ahead to what Paul and his fellow workers did because of their longing. Alternate translation: [in the following way:]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

εὐδοκοῦμεν

˱we˲_˓were˒_taking_pleasure

If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: [we were happy] or [we considered it good]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / possession

τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ Θεοῦ

the gospel ¬the ˱of˲_God

Here, Paul is using the possessive form to describe the gospel that relates to God (see the similar phrase in [2:2](../02/02.md)). More specifically, the gospel could: (1) come from God. Alternate translation: [the gospel that God gave us] (2) be about God. Alternate translation: [the gospel about God]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

τὰς ἑαυτῶν ψυχάς

the ˱of˲_ourselves lives

Here, the word souls represents people and focuses particularly on who people are and what they do. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression from your language or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [our own selves]

Parallel 1 TH 2:8

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