and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
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1 Thessalonians 3:1–5
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Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,
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and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,
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that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
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For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.
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For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
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