1 Thessalonians 3

1 Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

And, because we could no longer endure it, we were willing to be left alone at Athens,

2 and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,

and to send to you Timothy our brother, a servant of God, and our assistant in the announcement of the Messiah; that he might strengthen you, and inquire of you respecting your faith:

3 that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

lest any of you should be disheartened by these afflictions; for ye know, that we are appointed thereto.

4 For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

For also when we were with you, we forewarned you, that we were to be afflicted; as ye know did occur.

5 For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

Therefore also I could not be quiet, until I sent to learn your faith; lest the Tempter should have tempted you, and our labor have been in vain.

6 But Timothy has just now come to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you.

But now, since Timothy hath come to us from among you, and hath informed us respecting your faith and your love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us at all times, and that ye desire to see us, even as we to see you;

7 For this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

therefore we are comforted in you, my brethren, amid all our straits and afflictions, on account of your faith.

8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

And now, we live, if ye stand fast in our Lord.

9 For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

For what thanks can we render to God in your behalf, for all the joy with which we are joyful on your account;

10 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

unless it be, that we the more supplicate before God, by night and by day, that we may see your faces, and may perfect what is lacking in your faith?

11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

And may God our Father, and our Lord Jesus the Messiah, direct our way unto you;

12 May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

and increase and enlarge your love towards one another, and towards all men, even as we love you;

13 to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

and establish your hearts unblamable in holiness, before God our Father; at the advent of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, with all his saints.