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2 and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, also our fellow worker in the Gospel of Christ, to confirm you and encourage you concerning your faith,
3 that no one be unsettled by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are appointed to this.
4 For indeed, when we were with you we kept telling you in advance that we were going to be afflicted; just as it happened, in fact, as you know.
5 Yes, that’s why, no longer standing it, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had successfully tempted you and our labor come to be for nothing.
6 But now that Timothy has 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, just as we also long to see you
7 —because of this, brothers, in all our affliction and distress we were encouraged about you by your faith;
8 for now we live, if you are standing firm in the Lord.