1 Thessalonians 3

1 Therefore, when we could not stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

WHEREFORE when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone:

2 and sent Timothy, our brother and God's fellow worker in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;

and sent Timothy our brother, and a minister of God, and our fellow-labourer in the gospel of Christ, that he might stablish you, and comfort you concerning your faith:

3 that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

that no man might be shaken by these tribulations; for ye yourselves know that thereunto we are appointed.

4 For truly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

For when we were with you, we told you before that we were about to suffer tribulation; as also it came to pass, and ye know.

5 For this cause I also, when I could not stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

For this cause also, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your fidelity, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labour should be in vain.

6 But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you;

But now when Timothy returned to us from you, and brought us the glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye retain a kind remembrance of us always, earnestly desirous to see us, as we are also to see you:

7 for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

for this cause we have felt consolation, brethren, in you under all our tribulation and distress, because of your fidelity.

8 For now we live, since you stand firm in the Lord.

For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

9 For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;

For what sufficient thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God,

10 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

night and day most fervently praying that we may see your face, and amply supply the deficiencies of your faith?

11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you;

Now God himself, and our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ direct our way unto you.

12 and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, even as we also do toward you,

And the Lord cause you to abound and overflow with love one to another, and towards all men, as we also do to you:

13 to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

to the end that your hearts may be established blameless in holiness before God and our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.