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3:1 Therefore, no longer able to wait, we thought it best to be left behind in Athens alone, 2 and we sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker of God in the gospel of Christ, for the purpose of strengthening you and encouraging your faith. 3 Let no one be disturbed in these pressures of travail, for you yourselves are aware that we are placed and specially appointed into this very thing. 4 And indeed, when we were with you, we were warning you that we are about to suffer affliction, just as it also came to be; as you are aware. 5 Because of this I also, no longer able to wait, sent to know your faith, lest somehow the one who tempts had tempted you and our labor would have been for no purpose.
6 Just recently, though, Timothy came back to us from you, bringing good news to us of your faith and love, and that you have always a good remembrance of us, longing to see us just as we also to see you. 7 Because of this we were encouraged, brothers and sisters, upon all our constraint and pressures of travail as to you through your faith. 8 For now we live, if you are standing firm inside of the Lord. 9 For what thanksgiving are we able to give to God concerning you, upon all the joy that we rejoice through you, inside the presence of our God, night and day, imploring hyper-abundantly that we might see your face, to be able to supply the things lacking in your faith?
11 Now, may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our path towards you. • 12 May the Lord now make you to increase and to abound in love into one another, and into all, just as also we love into you, • 13 and into strengthening your hearts blameless inside of devotion inside the presence of our God and Father inside of the immediate presence of our Lord Jesus, with all His devoted ones. Let it be so – it is so [g].
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