| 1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be
left behind at Athens alone; 2 and sent Timothy, our brother and God's
minister in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort
you concerning your faith; 3 that no man be moved by these
afflictions; for yourselves know that hereunto we are appointed. 4 For
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. 5 For 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.
6 But 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; 7 for this
cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and
affliction through your faith: 8 for now we live, if ye stand fast in the
Lord. 9 For what thanksgiving can we render again unto God for you, for
all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes 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? 11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our
Lord Jesus, direct our way unto you: 12 and the Lord make you to increase
and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also
do toward you; 13 to 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.
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