1 Thessalonians 3

3:1Therefore no longer holding off, we thought well to be left behind in Athens alone;

3:2and we sent forth Timothy our brother and servant of God, and our fellow-worker in the good news of the Christ, for the supporting you, and to comfort you concerning the belief of yours;

3:3in the no one shrinking in these afflictions; for you yourselves know that in this we are situated.

3:4For also, when we were with you, we said beforehand to you that we are about to be afflicted; as also it happened, and you know.

3:5Because of this, I also no longer holding off, sent forth for the knowing the belief of yours, lest perhaps the one testing tested you, and our toil became in vain.

3:6But now Timothy having come to us from you, and having announced good news to us, the belief and the love of yours, and that you have at all times a good remembrance of us, longing to see us, just as also we you;

3:7because of this we were comforted, brethren, over you in all our affliction and necessity, because of the belief of yours;

3:8for now we live if you stand firmly in the Lord.

3:9For what thankfulness are we able to recompense God concerning you, for all the joy which we rejoice on account of you before our God,

3:10night and day superabundantly beseeching for the beholding your face, and to ready the deficiencies of the belief of yours?

3:11And may our God and father himself and our Lord Jesus Christ straighten out our way to you.

3:12And may the Lord superabound you, and may he abound the love towards one another, and towards all, just as also we towards you;

3:13so as to support your hearts blameless in holiness before the God and our father, at the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy ones.