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¹ Wherfore sence we coulde no longer forbeare, we thoughte it good to remayne at Athens alone,² & sent Timotheus oure brother and mynister of God, and oure helper in ye gospell of Christ, to stablysh you and to comforte you in youre faith,³ that noman shulde be moued in these troubles: (for ye youre selues knowe, that we are euen appoynted there vnto.⁴ And whan we were with you, we tolde you before, that we shulde suffre tribulacion, euen as it is come to passe, & as ye knowe.)⁵ For this cause seynge I coulde no longer forbeare, I sent, that I mighte haue knowlege of youre faith, lest happly the tempter had tempted you, and lest oure laboure had bene in vayne.

⁶ But now that Timotheus is come fro you vnto vs, and hath shewed vs of youre faith and loue, & how that ye haue allwaye good remembraunce of vs, desyringe to se vs as we also longe to se you:⁷ therfore brethren we haue consolacion in you in all oure trouble and necessite thorow youre faith.⁸ For now are we alyue, yf ye stonde stedfast in ye LORDE.⁹ For what thankes can we recompece to God agayne for you, because of this ioye that we haue concernynge you before oure God?¹⁰ We praye exceadingly daye and nighte, that we mighte se you presently, and fulfill that which is lackynge in yor faith.

¹¹ God himselfe or father & or LORDE Iesus Christ gyde oure iourney vnto you.¹² But the LORDE increace you, & make you flowe ouer in loue one towarde another, and towarde all men (euen as we do towarde you)¹³ that yor hertes maye be stable and vnblameable in holynes before God oure father, at the commynge of oure LORDE Iesus Christ with all his sayntes.