³ It gave me great joy when some believers^(A) came and testified about your faithfulness to the truth, telling how you continue to walk in it.^(B)

⁴ It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth,^(A) just as the Father commanded us.

² because of the truth,^(A) which lives in us^(B) and will be with us forever:

⁴ I have no greater joy than to hear that my children^(A) are walking in the truth.^(B)

Timothy’s Encouraging Report

⁶ But Timothy^(A) has just now come to us from you^(B) and has brought good news about your faith and love.^(C) He has told us that you always have pleasant memories of us and that you long to see us, just as we also long to see you.^{(D) 7} Therefore, brothers and sisters, in all our distress and persecution we were encouraged about you because of your faith. ⁸ For now we really live, since you are standing firm^(E) in the Lord. ⁹ How can we thank God enough for you^(F) in return for all the joy we have in the presence of our God because of you?^(G)

¹⁹ For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown^(A) in which we will glory^(B) in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes?^(C) Is it not you? ²⁰ Indeed, you are our glory^(D) and joy.

⁷ You learned it from Epaphras,^(A) our dear fellow servant,^[a] who is a faithful minister^(B) of Christ on our^[b] behalf, ⁸ and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.^(C)

⁴ In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray^(A) with joy