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”

But de just now arti Timothy Timotheos has come erchomai to pros us hēmeis from apo you hymeis, and kai has brought us hēmeis the good news euangelizō of ho your faith pistis and kai · ho your hymeis love agapē; and kai that hoti you always pantote think mneia of us hēmeis with echō affection agathos and long epipotheō to see us hēmeis even as kathaper · kai we hēmeis long to see you hymeis. So dia houtos in epi all pas our hēmeis distress anankē and kai affliction thlipsis, brothers adelphos, we have been reassured parakaleō about epi you hymeis · ho by dia · ho your hymeis faith pistis. For hoti now nyn we live zaō, if ean you hymeis stand stēkō firm in en the Lord kyrios. For gar what tis thanksgiving eucharistia can we dynamai return antapodidōmi to ho God theos for peri you hymeis, for epi all pas the ho joy chara with which hos we rejoice chairō before emprosthen our hēmeis God theos because dia of you hymeis? · ho 10 Night nyx and kai day hēmera we pray deomai most earnestly hyperekperissou that eis we may see your hymeis · ho face prosōpon and kai supply katartizō what ho is lacking hysterēma in ho your hymeis faith pistis.

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