1st Thessalonians 3

CHAPTER 3

¹For which thing we suffered no longer, and it pleased to us to dwell alone at Athens;

²and we sent Timothy, our brother, and minister of God in the evangel of Christ, to you to be confirmed, and to be taught, [or admonished] , for your faith,

³that no man be moved in these tribulations. For [ye] yourselves know, that in this thing we be set.

⁴For when we were at you, we before-said to you, that we should suffer tribulations; as it is done, and ye know.

⁵Therefore I, Paul , no longer abiding, sent to know your faith, lest peradventure he that tempteth [shall] tempt you, and your travail [or our travail] be made vain.

⁶But now, when Timothy shall come to us from you, and tell to us your faith and charity, and that ye have good mind of us, ever[more] desiring to see us, as we also you;

⁷therefore, brethren, we be comforted in you, in all our need and tribulation, by your faith.

⁸For now we live, if ye stand in the Lord.

⁹For what doing of thankings may we yield to God for you, in all joy, in which we joy for you before our Lord?

¹⁰night and day more plenteously praying, that we see your face, and fulfill those things that fail to [or of] your faith.

¹¹But God himself and our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, address our way to you.

¹²And the Lord multiply you, and make your charity to be plenteous of each to other [or for to abound together] , and into all men, as also we in you;

¹³that your hearts be confirmed without complaint in holiness, before God and our Father, in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. Amen.