Timothy’s Positive Report

But now, because[a] Timothy has come to us from you and has brought good news to us of your faith and love, and that you always think kindly of us[b], desiring to see us just as also we desire to see you, because of this, brothers, we have been comforted because of you in all our distress and affliction through your faith, because now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord. For what thanks can we repay to God concerning you, because of all the joy with which we rejoice because of you before our God, 10 night and day praying beyond all measure that we may see your face and complete what is lacking in your faith?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 3:6 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“has come”) which is understood as causal
  2. 1 Thessalonians 3:6 Literally “that you have kindly remembrance of us always”