1 Thessalonians 3

1 And so, as we could bear it no longer, we made up our minds to remain behind alone at Athens,

Therefore, no longer covering over it, we preferred to be left behind in Athens alone.

2 and sent Timothy, our dear friend and God’s minister of the good news of the Christ, to strengthen you, and to encourage you in your faith,

And we sent Timothy, our brother, and a helper of God, and our fellow workman in the good news of the Christ, in order to establish you and to encourage you about your faith,

3 so that none of you should be shaken by the troubles through which you are passing. You yourselves know that we are destined to meet with such things.

for no man to be disturbed by these afflictions. For ye yourselves know that we are set for this.

4 For, even while we were with you, we warned you beforehand that we were certain to encounter trouble. And so it proved, as you know.

For also when we were with you we foretold you that we were going to be oppressed, just as it also happened, and ye know.

5 Therefore, since I could no longer endure the uncertainty, I sent to make inquiries about your faith, fearing that the Tempter had tempted you, and that our toil might prove to have been in vain.

Because of this, I too, no longer covering over it, sent in order to know your faith, lest somehow he who tempts was tempting you, and our labor became in vain.

6 But, when Timothy recently returned to us from you with good news of your faith and love, and told us how kindly you think of us – always longing, he said, to see us, just as we are longing to see you –

But now of Timothy, having come to us from you, and having proclaimed good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye always have a good recollection of us, longing to see us, just as we also you,

7 on hearing this, we felt encouraged about you, friends, in the midst of all our difficulties and troubles, by your faith.

because of this, brothers, we were encouraged toward you in all our affliction and necessity through your faith.

8 For it is new life to us to know that you are holding fast to the Lord.

Because now we live, if ye stand firm in the Lord.

9 How can we thank God enough for all the happiness that you are giving us in the sight of our God?

For what thanks can we repay God about you, for all the joy in which we rejoiced because of you before our God,

10 Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face, and make good any deficiency in your faith.

praying night and day above extraordinary in order to see your face and to mend the deficiencies of your faith?

11 May our God and Father himself, and Jesus, our Lord, make the way plain for us to come to you.

Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

12 And for you, may the Lord fill you to overflowing with love for one another and for everyone, just as we are filled with love for you;

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love toward each other, and toward all men, just as also we toward you,

13 and so make your hearts strong, and your lives pure beyond reproach, in the sight of our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus, with all his Holy Ones.

in order to establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his sanctified.