\subsection{I Thessalonians 3}
\VS{1} Therefore no longer enduring we resolved to be left in Athens alone, 
\VS{2} and we sent Timothy, our brother and co-worker of God in the good-news of 
Christ, to establish you and exhort [you] concerning your faith, 
\VS{3} that no 
one disturb [you] in this affliction. For you yourselves know that we are 
appointed for these [things]: 
\VS{4} for indeed when we were with you, we foretold 
to you that we were [about] to be afflicted, just as it both came [about] and you know. 
\VS{5} Because of this I also no longer enduring, I sent to know your faith 
lest the testing [one] test you and our labor become futile. 
\VS{6} But now 
Timothy having come to us from you and having good-newsed to us your faith 
and your agape-love, and that you always have good remembrance of us, we 
desiring to see you just as you also us, 
\VS{7} because of this we were 
comforted over you in all our calamity and affliction through your faith, 
\VS{8} because now we zoe-live\fnZoe{} if you stand in [the] Lord. 
\VS{9} For what thanks are 
we able to be returning to God concerning you for all the joy which we 
rejoiced because [of you] before our God, 
\VS{10} day and night beyond all measure 
entreating to see your face and to set-aright the rest [of your] faith? 
\VS{11} So 
[our] God and father himself and our Lord Jesus, direct our road to you; 
\VS{12} 
and the Lord [make] you to increase and abound in agape-love for one another and 
for all, just as we [do] toward you, 
\VS{13} to the end that your hearts be 
established blameless in holiness before our God and father at the coming of 
our Lord Jesus with all his holy [ones].
