Thomson(i)
1 Wherefore not being able to bear any longer, we acquiesced in being left alone in Athens,
2 and sent Timothy our brother, and a minister of God, and our fellow labourer in the glad tidings of the Christ, to establish you and comfort you concerning your belief;
3 that none of you might be staggered by those afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.
4 For when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we should soon be afflicted, as it hath actually come to pass, and you know;
5 therefore not being able to bear any longer, I sent to know your faith, for fear the tempter might have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
6 But Timothy having now come to us from you, and brought us the good news of your belief and love, and that you have always a good remembrance of us, earnestly desiring to see us, as we do to see you;
7 we therefore, brethren, under all our affliction and distress are comforted in respect to you, by your faith.
8 Now because we live if you continue stedfast in the Lord,
9 what thanks then can we render to God respecting you, for all the joy with which we rejoice on your account, in the presence of our God;
10 day and night supplicating in the most earnest; manner to see your face and to complete the remainders of! your belief!
11 now may he himself, our God and father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you!
12 and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all men, [as we do for you]
13 so as to establish your hearts unblameable in holiness, in the presence of our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy ones.