The Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians
3:1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left
behind at Athens alone; 3:2and sent Timothy, our brother and God's minister in the
gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith; 3:3that
no man be moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know that hereunto we are
appointed. 3:4For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we
are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know. 3:5For this cause I
also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by
any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain. 3:6But
when Timothy came even now unto us from you, and brought us glad tidings of
your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, longing to
see us, even as we also to see you; 3:7for this cause, brethren, we were comforted
over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith: 3:8for now we live, if
ye stand fast in the Lord. 3:9For what thanksgiving can we render again unto God
for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God; 3:10night
and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that
which is lacking in your faith? 3:11Now may our God and Father himself, and our
Lord Jesus, direct our way unto you: 3:12and the Lord make you to increase and
abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do
toward you; 3:13to the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness
before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.