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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, just as it has come to pass, and just as you know. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you— |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7for this reason, brothers, in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8For now we live, if you are standing fast in the Lord. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For what thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the joy that we feel for your sake before our God, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10as we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. |
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