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¹ Wherefore, no longer concealing our anxiety, we were well-pleased to be left in Athens, alone,² And sent Timothy - our brother, and God's minister in the glad-message of the Christ - that he might confirm and console you over your faith,³ That, no one, might be shrinking back in these tribulations. For ye, yourselves, know, that, hereunto, are we appointed;⁴ For, even when we were with you, we told you beforehand - we are destined to suffer tribulation! even as it also came to pass, and ye know.⁵ For this cause, I also, no longer concealing my anxiety, sent, that I might get to know your faith, lest by any means he that tempteth, should have tempted you, and, in vain, should have been our toil.

⁶ But, when, just now, Timothy came unto us, from you, and brought us good tidings of your faith and love, - and that ye have good remembrance of us, continually, longing to see, us, - even as, we also, to see you,⁷ For this cause, were we consoled, brethren, over you, in all our necessity and tribulation, through your faith;⁸ Because, now, we live, - if only, ye, stand fast in the Lord.⁹ For what thanksgiving can we render back, unto God, concerning you, on occasion of all the joy wherewith we rejoice, for your sakes, before our God? - ¹⁰ Night and day, making very abundant entreaties, that we may see your face, and fit in the things which are lacking in your faith?

¹¹ Now may, our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus, make straight our way unto you:¹² And, you, may the Lord cause to abound and excel in your love one toward another, and toward all, - even as, we, do toward you:¹³ To the end he may confirms your hearts, faultless in holiness, before our God and Father, in the Presence of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.