¹ Hence, no longer forbearing it, we were delighted to be left in Athens alone.

² And we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant and our fellow worker in the good-news of the Christ, $that$ he might establish you° and to encourage you° concerning your° faith,

³ for no one to be shaken in these afflictions; for$ you° yourselves know that we are reserved $for this thing.

⁴ For$ even when we were with you°, we were saying to you° beforehand that we are about to be afflicted, just-as it also happened and you° know.

⁵ Because of this, no longer forbearing it, I also sent Timothy, $that$ I might know your° faith, lest the tempter had tempted you°, and our labor might become vain.

⁶ But now, Timothy came to us from you°, and proclaimed to us good-news about your° faith and love$, and that you° have a good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, just-as we also long to see you°.

⁷ Brethren, because of this, we were comforted upon the basis of you° in all our affliction and calamity through your° faith,

⁸ because now we live, if you° are standing-firm in the Lord.

⁹ For$ what thanksgiving are we able to repay to God concerning you°? Over all the joy in which we are rejoicing before our God is because of you°,

¹⁰ exceptionally beseeching God night and day, $that$ we may see your° face and may mend the things lacking of your° faith.

¹¹ Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus Christ, steer our way toward you°.

¹² And may the Lord increase in you° and this may abound in love$ toward one another and toward everyone, just-as we also do toward you°,

¹³ $that$ he might establish your° hearts, blameless in holiness before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his holy-ones.