Thematic Bible
1 Thessalonians 3:1 (show verse)
Wherefore being able to contain no longer, we were content to be left alone at Athens,
1 Thessalonians 3:2 (show verse)
and sent Timothy our brother, and a minister of God, and our fellow-labourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you concerning your faith;
1 Thessalonians 3:3 (show verse)
that no one might be shaken by these afflictions: for ye yourselves know that we are appointed hereunto.
1 Thessalonians 3:4 (show verse)
For when we were with you, we told you before that we should be afflicted, as it came to pass, and ye know.
1 Thessalonians 3:5 (show verse)
For this cause being able to wait no longer, I sent to know the state of your faith, least the tempter should have tempted you, and our labor have been in vain.
1 Thessalonians 3:6 (show verse)
But now Timothy being come back to us from you, and having brought us good tidings concerning your faith and love, and that ye have always a good remembrance of us, greatly desiring to see us, as we indeed do to see you;
1 Thessalonians 3:7 (show verse)
by this we were comforted in you, my brethren, under all our affliction and distress, because of your faith:
1 Thessalonians 3:8 (show verse)
for now we are revived, since you are stedfast in the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 3:9 (show verse)
For what thanks can we render to God concerning you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on your account before our God,
1 Thessalonians 3:10 (show verse)
night and day most ardently praying, that we may see your face, and perfect whatever is wanting in your faith?
1 Thessalonians 3:11 (show verse)
And may God himself even our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way to you:
1 Thessalonians 3:12 (show verse)
and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love to one another, and to all men, as we do towards you:
1 Thessalonians 3:13 (show verse)
that your hearts may be established unblameable in holiness, before God even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints.