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Chapter 3 |
| 1 | Wherefore when
we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens
alone; |
| 2 |
And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our
fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you
concerning your faith: |
| 3 | That no man should be moved by these
afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. |
| 4 |
For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer
tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know. |
| 5 | For 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 labour be in vain. |
| 6 | But
now when Timotheus 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: |
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7 | Therefore, brethren, we were
comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: |
| 8 |
For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. |
| 9 | For what
thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for
your sakes before our God; |
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10 | Night and day praying exceedingly that
we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your
faith? |
| 11
| Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus
Christ, direct our way unto you. |
| 12 | And the Lord make you to
increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we
do toward you: |
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13 | To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable
in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
with all his saints. |
