⁸ I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that you may know how we are^[a] and that he may encourage your hearts;

²² I am sending him to you for this very purpose, to let you know how we are and to encourage your hearts.

² I want their hearts to be encouraged and united in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ,^[a](A)

¹⁷ comfort your hearts and strengthen them in every good work and word.^(A)

¹⁴ And we urge you, brothers and sisters, to admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all of them.^(A)

¹¹ Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing.

¹⁸ Therefore encourage one another with these words.

⁵ For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith; I was afraid that somehow the tempter had tempted you and that our labor had been in vain.^(A)

² and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s coworker^[a] in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you for the sake of your faith,^(A)

¹¹ As you know, we dealt with each one of you like a father with his children,