Godbey - I Thessalonians - 3

3:1  Therefore no longer containing, we delighted to be left alone at Athens;

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

3:3  that no one should be shaken in these tribulations. For you know that for this we are appointed.

3:4  For indeed, when we were with you, we foretold you that we are about to suffer tribulation; as indeed took place, and you know it.

3:5  Therefore I indeed, no longer containing, sent that I might know your faith, lest perhaps the tempter tempted you, and our labor may be in vain.

3:6  But Timothy, having already come to us from you, and proclaimed to us the good news of your faith and your divine love, and that you always have a good mention of us, longing to see us, as we do to see you;

3:7  therefore we were comforted, brethren, over you in all our distress and tribulation on account of your faith;

3:8  because we now live, if you stand in the Lord.

3:9  For what thanks are we able to render unto God in your behalf, for all the joy with which we rejoice on account of you before our God;

3:10  night and day praying incessantly that we may see your face, and perfect the deficiencies of your faith?

3:11  But God himself, even our Father, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way unto you:

3:12  and the Lord fill you and cause you to superabound in divine love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also do towards you;

3:13  in order to establish your hearts blameless in holiness in the presence of God even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints: amen.