1 Thessalonians 3:2-5 and sent Timothy, our brother, and a minister of God, and our fellow-laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to exhort you concerning your faith:

Living_Oracles⁽ⁱ⁾ ² and sent Timothy, our brother, and a minister of God, and our fellow-laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to exhort you concerning your faith: ³ that no one should be moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know that we are appointed to them. ⁴ For even when we were with you, we foretold you that we were to be afflicted; which also happened as you know. ⁵ For this reason also, no longer concealing my anxiety, I sent to know your faith; lest by some means the tempter may have tempted you, and our labor have become in vain.