and encourage you in your faith;
003:003 that none of you might be unnerved by your present trials:
for you yourselves know that they are our appointed lot.
003:004 For even when we were with you, we forewarned you, saying,
"We are soon to suffer affliction;" and this actually happened,
as you well know.
003:005 For this reason I also, when I could no longer endure
the uncertainty, sent to know the condition of your faith,
lest perchance the Tempter might have tempted you and our
labour have been lost.
003:006 But now that Timothy has recently come back to us from you,
and has brought us the happy tidings of your faith and love,
and has told us how you still cherish a constant and affectionate
recollection of us, and are longing to see us as we also long
to see you--
003:007 for this reason in our distress and trouble we have been
comforted about you, brethren, by your faith.
003:008 For now life is for us life indeed, since you are standing
fast in the Lord.
003:009 For what thanksgiving on your behalf can we possibly offer
to God in return for all the joy which fills our souls before
our God for you,
003:010 while night and day, with intense earnestness, we pray that we
may see your faces, and may bring to perfection whatever
may be still lacking in your faith?
003:011 But may our God and Father Himself--and our Lord Jesus--
guide us on our way to you;
003:012 and as for you, may the Lord teach you to love one another
and all men, with a growing and a glowing love, resembling our
love for you.