6現在，提摩太剛從你們那裡回來，把有關你們信心和愛心的好消息告訴了我們。他說你們常常思念我們，很想見到我們，就像我們渴望見到你們一樣。7弟兄姊妹，你們的信心使我們在萬般困苦和患難中得到了激勵。8得知你們靠著主堅定不移，我們現在感到振奮。9你們使我們在上帝面前感到非常喜樂，我們該怎樣為你們感謝上帝呢！10我們晝夜懇切禱告，渴望能見到你們，彌補你們信心的不足之處。11願我們的父上帝和我們的主耶穌引領我們到你們那裡。12願主使你們彼此之間的愛和對他人的愛一齊增長，甚至滿溢出來，就像我們愛你們一樣。13這樣，當我們的主耶穌帶著祂的眾聖徒再來時，你們可以在我們的父上帝面前心裡剛強，完全聖潔，無可指責。
English Standard Version
1Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone,2and we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s coworker* in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith,3that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.4For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, just as it has come to pass, and just as you know.5For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.
Timothy’s Encouraging Report
6But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you—7for this reason, brothers,* in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith.8For now we live, if you are standing fast in the Lord.9For what thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the joy that we feel for your sake before our God,10as we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith?11Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you,12and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,13so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
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