3:1 Therefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone;
3:2 and sent Timothy, our brother and coworker under God in the good news of Christ, to establish you+, and to comfort [you+] concerning your+ faith;
3:3 that no man be moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know that hereunto we are appointed.
3:4 For truly, when we were with you+, we told you+ beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and you+ know.
3:5 For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your+ faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you+, and our labor should be in vain.
3:6 But when Timothy came even now to us from you+, and brought us good news about your+ faith and love, and that you+ have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, even as we also [to see] you+;
3:7 for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you+ in all our distress and affliction through your+ faith:
3:8 for now we live, if you+ stand fast in the Lord.
3:9 For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you+, for all the joy with which we joy for your+ sakes before our God;
3:10 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your+ face, and may provide that which is lacking in your+ faith?
3:11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you+:
3:12 and the Lord make you+ to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also [do] toward you+;
3:13 to the end he may establish your+ hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. Amen.