For you yourselves know, brothers and sisters, about our coming to you– it has not proven to be purposeless.

弟兄们，你们自己原晓得我们进到你们那里并不是徒然的。

弟兄们，你们自己知道我们来到你们那里并不是徒然的。

弟兄们，你们自己知道我们来到你们那里并不是徒然的。

弟兄姊妹，你们自己知道，我们那次探望你们并没有白费。

弟兄们，你们都知道，我们进到你们那里，并不是白费工夫的。

弟兄们，你们自己知道，我们进到你们那里并不是空无果效的；

弟兄們，你們自己原曉得我們進到你們那裏並不是徒然的。

弟兄們，你們自己知道我們來到你們那裏並不是徒然的。

弟兄們，你們自己知道我們來到你們那裏並不是徒然的。

弟兄姊妹，你們自己知道，我們那次探望你們並沒有白費。

弟兄們，你們都知道，我們進到你們那裡，並不是白費工夫的。

弟兄們，你們自己也知道我們進到你們中間、並不見得是空無所得的；

弟兄們，你們自己知道，我們進到你們那裡並不是空無果效的；

兄弟乎、爾知我儕昔入爾中、非徒然也、

兄弟知我素至爾、非徒然、

兄弟乎、爾知我儕至爾處、非徒然也、

兄弟乎、曩者吾儕之詣爾處、實不為徒勞；此固爾等之所知也。

You know, brothers and sisters, that our visit to you was not without results.

Brothers and sisters, you know that our visit to you produced results.

For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain.

You yourselves know, dear brothers and sisters, that our visit to you was not a failure.

For you yourselves know, brothers and sisters, that our visit with you was not without result.

For you yourselves know, brothers and sisters, that our reception among you was not in vain,

For you yourselves know, brethren, that our coming to you was not in vain.

For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it hath not been found vain:

For you yourselves know, brothers, that our visit with you was not without result.

For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:

For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,

Finally, pray for us, brothers and sisters, that the Lord’s message may spread quickly and be honored as in fact it was among you,

Be sure of this! The LORD who commands armies has decreed: The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.

If the LORD does not build a house, then those who build it work in vain. If the LORD does not guard a city, then the watchman stands guard in vain.

I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.

I went there because of a revelation and presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did so only in a private meeting with the influential people, to make sure that I was not running– or had not run– in vain.

and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you– unless you believed in vain.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them– yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

So when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter somehow tempted you and our toil had proven useless.

So then, dear brothers and sisters, be firm. Do not be moved! Always be outstanding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

because we recall in the presence of our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.We know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you,in that our gospel did not come to you merely in words, but in power and in the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction( surely you recall the character we displayed when we came among you to help you).And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received the message with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, despite great affliction.As a result you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.For from you the message of the Lord has echoed forth not just in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place reports of your faith in God have spread, so that we do not need to say anything.For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true Godand to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.

by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

Now because we are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

But I thought,“ I have worked in vain; I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing.” But the LORD will vindicate me; my God will reward me.

They will not work in vain, or give birth to children that will experience disaster. For the LORD will bless their children and their descendants.

And so we too constantly thank God that when you received God’s message that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human message, but as it truly is, God’s message, which is at work among you who believe.

I concluded,“ Surely in vain I have kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle.

She is harsh with her young, as if they were not hers; she is unconcerned about the uselessness of her labor.

when he comes to be glorified among his saints and admired on that day among all who have believed– and you did in fact believe our testimony.