KJVSo 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.
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.
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.
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,
Thus, yearning over you, we had found our delight in having imparted to you not only the glad tidings ofGod, but our own lives also, because ye had become beloved of us.
1 Thessalonians — Apostolic writings (New Testament).
3 For our exhortation. He confirms, by another argument, the Thessalonians in the faith which they had embraced -- inasmuch as they had been faithfully and purely instructed in the word of the Lord, for he maintains that his doctrine was free from all deception and uncleanness. And with the…