⁹ For you recall, brothers and sisters, our ^(A)labor and hardship: it was by ^(B)working night and day so as not to be a ^(C)burden to any of you, that we proclaimed to you the ^(D)gospel of God. ¹⁰ You are witnesses, and so is ^(E)God, of ^(F)how devoutly and rightly and blamelessly we ^[a]behaved toward you ^[b]believers; ¹¹ just as you know how we were ^(G)exhorting and encouraging and ^(H)imploring each one of you as ^(I)a father would his own children, ¹² so that you would ^(J)walk in a manner worthy of the God who ^(K)calls you into His own kingdom and ^(L)glory.

¹³ For this reason we also constantly ^(M)thank God that when you received the ^(N)word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it ^(O)not as the word of mere men, but as what it really is, the word of God, ^(P)which also is at work in you who believe. ¹⁴ For you, brothers and sisters, became ^(Q)imitators of ^(R)the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are ^(S)in Judea, for ^(T)you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, ^(U)even as they did from the Jews, ^15 (V)who both killed the Lord Jesus and ^(W)the prophets, and ^[c]drove us out. ^[d]They are not pleasing to God, ^[e]but hostile to all people, ^16 (X)hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles ^(Y)so that they may be saved; with the result that they always ^[f](Z)reach the limit of their sins. But ^(AA)wrath has come upon them ^[g]fully.

¹⁷ But we, brothers and sisters, having been orphaned from you by absence for a ^[h]short while—^(AB)in ^[i]person, not in ^[j]spirit—were all the more eager with great desire ^(AC)to see your face. ^18 [k]For ^(AD)we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, ^[l](AE)more than once—and ^(AF)Satan ^(AG)hindered us. ¹⁹ For who is our hope, or ^(AH)joy or crown of pride, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His ^[m](AI)coming? Or is it not indeed you? ²⁰ For you are ^(AJ)our glory and joy.

Encouragement of Timothy’s Visit

3 Therefore, ^(AK)when we could no longer endure it, we thought it best to be left behind, alone at ^(AL)Athens, ² and we sent ^(AM)Timothy, our brother and God’s fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you for the benefit of your faith, ³ so that no one would be ^[n]disturbed by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that ^(AN)we have been destined for this. ⁴ For even when we were with you, we kept telling you in advance that we were going to suffer affliction; ^[o](AO)and so it happened, ^[p]as you know. ⁵ For this reason, ^(AP)when I could no longer endure it, I also ^(AQ)sent to ^[q]find out about your faith, for fear that ^(AR)the tempter might have tempted you, and ^(AS)our labor would be for nothing.

⁶ But now that ^(AT)Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us good news of ^(AU)your faith and love, and that you always ^(AV)think kindly of us, longing to see us just as we also long to see you, ⁷ for this reason, brothers and sisters, in all our distress and affliction we were comforted about you through your faith; ⁸ for now we really live, if you ^(AW)stand firm in the Lord. ⁹ For ^(AX)what thanks can we give to God for you in return for all the joy with which we rejoice because of you before our God, ¹⁰ as we ^(AY)keep praying most earnestly night and day that we may ^(AZ)see your faces, and may ^(BA)complete what is lacking in your faith?

^11 (BB)Now may ^(BC)our God and Father ^(BD)Himself, and our Lord Jesus, ^(BE)direct our way to you; ¹² and may the Lord cause you to increase and ^(BF)overflow in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you; ¹³ so that He may ^(BG)establish your hearts ^(BH)blameless in holiness before ^(BI)our God and Father at the ^[r](BJ)coming of our Lord Jesus ^(BK)with all His ^[s]saints.

⁹ For you recall, brothers and sisters, our ^(A)labor and hardship: it was by ^(B)working night and day so as not to be a ^(C)burden to any of you, that we proclaimed to you the ^(D)gospel of God. ¹⁰ You are witnesses, and so is ^(E)God, of ^(F)how devoutly and rightly and blamelessly we ^[a]behaved toward you ^[b]believers; ¹¹ just as you know how we were ^(G)exhorting and encouraging and ^(H)imploring each one of you as ^(I)a father would his own children, ¹² so that you would ^(J)walk in a manner worthy of the God who ^(K)calls you into His own kingdom and ^(L)glory.

¹³ For this reason we also constantly ^(M)thank God that when you received the ^(N)word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it ^(O)not as the word of mere men, but as what it really is, the word of God, ^(P)which also is at work in you who believe. ¹⁴ For you, brothers and sisters, became ^(Q)imitators of ^(R)the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are ^(S)in Judea, for ^(T)you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, ^(U)even as they did from the Jews, ^15 (V)who both killed the Lord Jesus and ^(W)the prophets, and ^[c]drove us out. ^[d]They are not pleasing to God, ^[e]but hostile to all people, ^16 (X)hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles ^(Y)so that they may be saved; with the result that they always ^[f](Z)reach the limit of their sins. But ^(AA)wrath has come upon them ^[g]fully.

¹⁷ But we, brothers and sisters, having been orphaned from you by absence for a ^[h]short while—^(AB)in ^[i]person, not in ^[j]spirit—were all the more eager with great desire ^(AC)to see your face. ^18 [k]For ^(AD)we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, ^[l](AE)more than once—and ^(AF)Satan ^(AG)hindered us. ¹⁹ For who is our hope, or ^(AH)joy or crown of pride, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His ^[m](AI)coming? Or is it not indeed you? ²⁰ For you are ^(AJ)our glory and joy.

Encouragement of Timothy’s Visit

3 Therefore, ^(AK)when we could no longer endure it, we thought it best to be left behind, alone at ^(AL)Athens, ² and we sent ^(AM)Timothy, our brother and God’s fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you for the benefit of your faith,

⁹ For you recall, brothers and sisters, our ^(A)labor and hardship: it was by ^(B)working night and day so as not to be a ^(C)burden to any of you, that we proclaimed to you the ^(D)gospel of God. ¹⁰ You are witnesses, and so is ^(E)God, of ^(F)how devoutly and rightly and blamelessly we ^[a]behaved toward you ^[b]believers; ¹¹ just as you know how we were ^(G)exhorting and encouraging and ^(H)imploring each one of you as ^(I)a father would his own children, ¹² so that you would ^(J)walk in a manner worthy of the God who ^(K)calls you into His own kingdom and ^(L)glory.

¹³ For this reason we also constantly ^(M)thank God that when you received the ^(N)word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it ^(O)not as the word of mere men, but as what it really is, the word of God, ^(P)which also is at work in you who believe. ¹⁴ For you, brothers and sisters, became ^(Q)imitators of ^(R)the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are ^(S)in Judea, for ^(T)you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, ^(U)even as they did from the Jews, ^15 (V)who both killed the Lord Jesus and ^(W)the prophets, and ^[c]drove us out. ^[d]They are not pleasing to God, ^[e]but hostile to all people, ^16 (X)hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles ^(Y)so that they may be saved; with the result that they always ^[f](Z)reach the limit of their sins. But ^(AA)wrath has come upon them ^[g]fully.

¹⁷ But we, brothers and sisters, having been orphaned from you by absence for a ^[h]short while—^(AB)in ^[i]person, not in ^[j]spirit—were all the more eager with great desire ^(AC)to see your face. ^18 [k]For ^(AD)we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, ^[l](AE)more than once—and ^(AF)Satan ^(AG)hindered us. ¹⁹ For who is our hope, or ^(AH)joy or crown of pride, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His ^[m](AI)coming? Or is it not indeed you? ²⁰ For you are ^(AJ)our glory and joy.

Encouragement of Timothy’s Visit

3 Therefore, ^(AK)when we could no longer endure it, we thought it best to be left behind, alone at ^(AL)Athens, ² and we sent ^(AM)Timothy, our brother and God’s fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you for the benefit of your faith, ³ so that no one would be ^[n]disturbed by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that ^(AN)we have been destined for this. ⁴ For even when we were with you, we kept telling you in advance that we were going to suffer affliction; ^[o](AO)and so it happened, ^[p]as you know. ⁵ For this reason, ^(AP)when I could no longer endure it, I also ^(AQ)sent to ^[q]find out about your faith, for fear that ^(AR)the tempter might have tempted you, and ^(AS)our labor would be for nothing.

⁶ But now that ^(AT)Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us good news of ^(AU)your faith and love, and that you always ^(AV)think kindly of us, longing to see us just as we also long to see you, ⁷ for this reason, brothers and sisters, in all our distress and affliction we were comforted about you through your faith; ⁸ for now we really live, if you ^(AW)stand firm in the Lord. ⁹ For ^(AX)what thanks can we give to God for you in return for all the joy with which we rejoice because of you before our God, ¹⁰ as we ^(AY)keep praying most earnestly night and day that we may ^(AZ)see your faces, and may ^(BA)complete what is lacking in your faith?

^11 (BB)Now may ^(BC)our God and Father ^(BD)Himself, and our Lord Jesus, ^(BE)direct our way to you; ¹² and may the Lord cause you to increase and ^(BF)overflow in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you; ¹³ so that He may ^(BG)establish your hearts ^(BH)blameless in holiness before ^(BI)our God and Father at the ^[r](BJ)coming of our Lord Jesus ^(BK)with all His ^[s]saints.

⁹ For you recall, brothers and sisters, our ^(A)labor and hardship: it was by ^(B)working night and day so as not to be a ^(C)burden to any of you, that we proclaimed to you the ^(D)gospel of God. ¹⁰ You are witnesses, and so is ^(E)God, of ^(F)how devoutly and rightly and blamelessly we ^[a]behaved toward you ^[b]believers; ¹¹ just as you know how we were ^(G)exhorting and encouraging and ^(H)imploring each one of you as ^(I)a father would his own children, ¹² so that you would ^(J)walk in a manner worthy of the God who ^(K)calls you into His own kingdom and ^(L)glory.

¹³ For this reason we also constantly ^(M)thank God that when you received the ^(N)word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it ^(O)not as the word of mere men, but as what it really is, the word of God, ^(P)which also is at work in you who believe. ¹⁴ For you, brothers and sisters, became ^(Q)imitators of ^(R)the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are ^(S)in Judea, for ^(T)you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, ^(U)even as they did from the Jews, ^15 (V)who both killed the Lord Jesus and ^(W)the prophets, and ^[c]drove us out. ^[d]They are not pleasing to God, ^[e]but hostile to all people, ^16 (X)hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles ^(Y)so that they may be saved; with the result that they always ^[f](Z)reach the limit of their sins. But ^(AA)wrath has come upon them ^[g]fully.

¹⁷ But we, brothers and sisters, having been orphaned from you by absence for a ^[h]short while—^(AB)in ^[i]person, not in ^[j]spirit—were all the more eager with great desire ^(AC)to see your face. ^18 [k]For ^(AD)we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, ^[l](AE)more than once—and ^(AF)Satan ^(AG)hindered us. ¹⁹ For who is our hope, or ^(AH)joy or crown of pride, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His ^[m](AI)coming? Or is it not indeed you? ²⁰ For you are ^(AJ)our glory and joy.

Encouragement of Timothy’s Visit

3 Therefore, ^(AK)when we could no longer endure it, we thought it best to be left behind, alone at ^(AL)Athens, ² and we sent ^(AM)Timothy, our brother and God’s fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you for the benefit of your faith,