1 Thessalonians 3
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1So when we could stand it no longer, we thought it best to be left behind alone in Athens.
2We sent Timothy, our brother and co-worker for God in proclaiming the Good News of Messiah, in order to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,
3so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know we are destined for this.
4For even when we were with you, we kept telling you in advance that we were going to suffer persecution— just as has happened, as you know.
5For this reason, when I could stand it no longer, I sent to find out about your faithfulness, for fear that the tempter had tempted you and that our labor might be in vain.
6But now that Timothy has come to us from you and brought us the good news of your faithfulness and love, and that you always have good memories of us, longing to see us just as we long to see you—
7because of this, brothers and sisters, in all our distress and trouble, we were comforted about you by your faithfulness.
8For now we live, since you are standing firm in the Lord.
9For what thanks would be enough to offer to God, in return for all the joy we feel before our God because of you?
10Night time and day time we keep praying more than ever to see you face to face, and mend any shortcomings in your faith.
Thanks, Joy, and Love Before God
11Now may our God and Father Himself and Yeshua our Lord direct our way to you.
12May the Lord also cause you to increase and overflow in love for one another and for all people, just as we also do for you,
13in order to strengthen your hearts as blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Yeshua with all His kedoshim. Amen.
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1 Thessalonians 3
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Acts 17.15. Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone; 2and sent Timothy, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith: 3that no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. 4For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know. 5For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labor be in vain.
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Acts 18.5. But now when Timothy came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you: 7therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: 8for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. 9For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God; 10night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
11Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. 12And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: 13to the end he may stablish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
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King James Version 1611, spelling, punctuation and text formatting modernized by ABS in 1962; typesetting © 2010 American Bible Society.