1 Thessalonians 3

1 Wherefore no longer forbearing, we thought good to be left in Athens alone,

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

2 and did send Timotheus — our brother, and a ministrant of God, and our fellow-workman in the good news of the 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 in these tribulations, for yourselves have known that for this we are set,

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

4 for even when we were with you, we said to you beforehand, that we are about to suffer tribulation, as also it did come to pass, and ye have known [it];

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 because of this also, I, no longer forbearing, did send to know your faith, lest he who is tempting did tempt you, and in vain might be our labour.

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 And now Timotheus having come unto us from you, and having declared good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us always, desiring much to see us, as we also [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 because of this we were comforted, brethren, over you, in all our tribulation and necessity, through your faith,

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

8 because now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord;

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

9 for what thanks are we able to recompense to God for you, for all the joy with which we do joy because of you in the presence of 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 exceedingly beseeching, that we might see your face, and perfect the things 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 And our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you,

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

12 and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to 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 establishing your hearts blameless in sanctification before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ 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.