For [they] themselves report about us, what sort of welcome we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve [the] living and true God,

and we sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, in order to strengthen and to encourage you about your faith,

for indeed when we were with you we told you beforehand that we were about to be afflicted, just as indeed it happened, and you know.