Brothers, when we were bereft of you for a little while (out of sight, not out of mind), we were the more eager to see you. We had a keen longing for you.

But when Timotheus reached me a moment ago, on his return from you, bringing me the good news of your faith and love and of how you always remember me kindly, longing to see me as I long to see you,

Night and day I pray specially that I may see your faces and supply what is defective in your faith.

see that none of you pays back evil for evil, but always aim at what is kind to one another and to all the world;