فَنَحْنُ لا نُرِيدُ التَّسَلُّطَ عَلى إِيْمَانِكُم، بَلْ نَحْنُ نَعْمَلُ مَعَكُم مِنْ أَجْلِ فَرَحِكُم، لأَنَّكُم بِالإِيْمَانِ ثَابِتُون/I do not mean to imply that we lord it over your faith; rather, we are workers with you for your joy, because you stand firm in the faith

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فَنَحْنُ لا نُرِيدُ التَّسَلُّطَ عَلى إِيْمَانِكُم، بَلْ نَحْنُ نَعْمَلُ مَعَكُم مِنْ أَجْلِ فَرَحِكُم، لأَنَّكُم بِالإِيْمَانِ ثَابِتُون
رسالة القدّيس بولس الثانية إلى أهل قورنتس01/من12حتى24/:”يا إخوَتي، إِنَّ فَخْرَنَا هوَ شَهَادَةُ ضَمِيرِنَا بِأَنَّنَا تَصَرَّفْنَا في العَالَم، وخُصُوصًا عِنْدَكُم، بِبَسَاطَةِ ٱللهِ وَصِدْقِهِ، لا بِحِكْمَةٍ بَشَرِيَّةٍ بَلْ بِنِعْمَةٍ مِنَ ٱلله. فَنَحْنُ لا نَكْتُبُ إِلَيْكُم بِشَيءٍ آخَرَ سِوَى مَا تَقْرَأُونَ وتَفْهَمُون، وآمَلُ أَنْ تَفْهَمُوا فَهْمًا كَامِلاً
مَا لَمْ تَفْهَمُوهُ إِلاَّ قَلِيلاً، وهوَ أَنَّنَا فَخْرُكُم كَمَا أَنَّكُم فَخْرُنَا، في يَوْمِ الرَّبِّ يَسُوع. وأَنَا بِهذِهِ الثِّقَةِ كُنْتُ عَازِمًا أَنْ آتِيَ إِلَيْكُم أَوَّلاً، لِكَيْ يَكُونَ لَكُم نِعْمَةٌ جَدِيدَة، ثُمَّ أَعْبُرَ مِنْ عِنْدِكُم إِلى مَقْدُونِيَة، وأَعُودَ مِنْ مَقْدُونِيَةَ إِلَيْكُم، فَتُشَيِّعُونِي إِلى اليَهُودِيَّة. إِذًا، إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ عَزَمْتُ عَلى ذلِك، فَهَلْ أَكُونُ قَدْ تَصَرَّفْتُ بِخِفَّة؟ أَمْ أَكُونُ قَدْ فَعَلْتُ ذلِكَ وَفْقًا لِمَنْطِقٍ بَشَرِيّ؟ فَيَكُونَ عِنْدِي نَعَمْ ولا في آنٍ وَاحِد! أَمِينٌ هُوَ ٱلله! فإِنَّ كَلامَنَا إِلَيْكُم لَمْ يَكُنْ نَعَمْ وَلا! لأَنَّ ٱبْنَ ٱللهِ يَسُوعَ المَسِيحَ الَّذي بَشَّرْنَا بِهِ بَيْنَكُم، أَنَا وَسِلْوَانُسُ وطِيمُوتَاوُس، لَمْ يَكُنْ نَعَمْ وَلا، بَلْ كَانَ كُلُّ شَيءٍ فِيهِ نَعَم! فَجَمِيعُ وُعُودِ ٱللهِ كَانَتْ فِيهِ نَعَم! لِذلِكَ بِهِ أَيْضًا نَقُولُ لله: آمِين! لِمَجْدِ ٱلله. ولكِنَّ ٱللهَ هُوَ الَّذي يُثَبِّتُنَا وإِيَّاكُم في المَسِيح، وهُوَ الَّذي مَسَحَنَا وخَتَمَنَا، وجَعَلَ عُرْبُونَ الرُّوحِ في قُلُوبِنَا. وأَنَا أُشْهِدُ ٱللهَ عَلى نَفْسِي أَنِّي، مُرَاعَاةً لِشُعُورِكُم، لَمْآتِ إِلى قُورِنْتُس؛ فَنَحْنُ لا نُرِيدُ التَّسَلُّطَ عَلى إِيْمَانِكُم، بَلْ نَحْنُ نَعْمَلُ مَعَكُم مِنْ أَجْلِ فَرَحِكُم، لأَنَّكُم بِالإِيْمَانِ ثَابِتُون

I do not mean to imply that we lord it over your faith; rather, we are workers with you for your joy, because you stand firm in the faith
Letter to the Corinthians 01/12-24/:”Indeed, this is our boast, the testimony of our conscience: we have behaved in the world with frankness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God and all the more towards you. For we write to you nothing other than what you can read and also understand; I hope you will understand until the end as you have already understood us in part that on the day of the Lord Jesus we are your boast even as you are our boast. Since I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a double favour; I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on to Judea. Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to ordinary human standards, ready to say ‘Yes, yes’ and ‘No, no’ at the same time? As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been ‘Yes and No.’For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not ‘Yes and No’; but in him it is always ‘Yes.’For in him every one of God’s promises is a ‘Yes.’ For this reason it is through him that we say the ‘Amen’, to the glory of God. But it is God who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us, by putting his seal on us and giving us his Spirit in our hearts as a first instalment. But I call on God as witness against me: it was to spare you that I did not come again to Corinth. I do not mean to imply that we lord it over your faith; rather, we are workers with you for your joy, because you stand firm in the faith.