Worsley - I Thessalonians - 3

3:1  Wherefore being able to contain no longer, we were content to be left alone at Athens,

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

3:3  that no one might be shaken by these afflictions: for ye yourselves know that we are appointed hereunto.

3:4  For when we were with you, we told you before that we should be afflicted, as it came to pass, and ye know.

3:5  For this cause being able to wait no longer, I sent to know the state of your faith, least the tempter should have tempted you, and our labor have been in vain.

3:6  But now Timothy being come back to us from you, and having brought us good tidings concerning your faith and love, and that ye have always a good remembrance of us, greatly desiring to see us, as we indeed do to see you;

3:7  by this we were comforted in you, my brethren, under all our affliction and distress, because of your faith:

3:8  for now we are revived, since you are stedfast in the Lord.

3:9  For what thanks can we render to God concerning you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on your account before our God,

3:10  night and day most ardently praying, that we may see your face, and perfect whatever is wanting in your faith?

3:11  And may God himself even our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way to you:

3:12  and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love to one another, and to all men, as we do towards you:

3:13  that your hearts may be established unblameable in holiness, before God even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints.