< 1 Thessalonians 3 >
1 Wherefore no longer forbearing, we thought good to be left in Athens alone,
Wherefore, no longer concealing our anxiety, we were well pleased 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-laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to exhort 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 one should be moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know that we are appointed to them.
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 even when we were with you, we foretold you that we were to be afflicted; which also happened as you 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 reason also, no longer concealing my anxiety, I sent to know your faith; lest by some means the tempter may have tempted you, and our labor have become 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 came to us from you, and gave us the good news of your faith and love, and that you have good remembrance of us at all times, ardently desiring to see us, even as we also to see you;
7 because of this we were comforted, brethren, over you, in all our tribulation and necessity, through your faith,
by this, brethren, we were comforted concerning you in all our affliction and necessity, even by your faith.
8 because now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord;
For now we live, when you stand firm 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?
But what thanksgiving can we return to God concerning you, for all the joy with which we rejoice, through you, in the presence of 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 earnestly requesting to see your face, and to supply the deficiencies of your faith.
11 And our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you,
Now may God himself, even our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, make straight our way to 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 may the Lord fill you, and make you overflow with love to one another, and to all, even as we also 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.
that he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness, before God, even our Father, at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints.