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1 Thessalonians 3
1 Thessalonians 3:1-5
1Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone, 2and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith, 3that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task. 4For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know. 5For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
Unable to endure anxiety any longer, Paul stayed alone in Athens and sent Timothy to establish and comfort their faith lest affliction or the tempter undo the apostles’ labor.
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1 Thessalonians 3:6-10
6But Timothy has just now come to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you. 7For this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith. 8For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. 9For what thanksgiving can we give again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God, 10night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
Timothy’s glad news of their faith, love, and longing comforts Paul in distress; he lives if they stand fast, overflows with thanksgiving and joy, and prays night and day to see them and perfect what is lacking in their faith.
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1 Thessalonians 3:11-13
11Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you. 12May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you, 13to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
Paul prays that God the Father and the Lord Jesus direct their way to the Thessalonians, that the Lord make love abound toward one another and all, and establish hearts blameless in holiness at Jesus’ coming with all His saints.
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