Your actions on behalf of the true faith, your tireless toil of love, and your unfailing, unwavering, unending hope in our Lord Jesus the Anointed before God our Father have put you consistently at the forefront of our thoughts.

O brothers and sisters loved by God, we know He has chosen you.

You can imagine my relief and joy when Timothy returned to us with such good news about you, about your faith and love for us, about how you have such good memories of us and long to see us as much as we long to see you.

May God Himself, our Father, along with our Lord Jesus, [the Anointed One,] navigate our way to you.

May the Lord flood you with an unending, undying love for one another and for all humanity, like our love for you,

Now there’s no need for us to send you instructions on caring for your faith family because God Himself has already taught you how to love outside yourselves.

And it’s evident you learned that lesson well by the way you love all the people of Macedonia. Brothers and sisters, we urge you to love even more

Brothers and sisters, we want you to be fully informed about those who have fallen asleep in death so that you will not be overwhelmed with grief like those who live outside of the true hope.

but since we belong to the day, we should stay sober and in control, covered with a breastplate of faith and love and a helmet of the hope of salvation.

When you think about them, let it be with great love in your heart because of all the work they have done. Let peace live and reign among you.