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