1Wherefore when wee could no longer forbeare, wee thought it good to bee left at Athens alone:2And sent Timotheus our brother and minister of God, and our fellow labourer in the Gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:3That no man should be mooued by these afflictions: for your selues know that we are appointed therunto.4For verily when wee were with you, we told you before, that we should suffer tribulation, euen as it came to passe and ye know.5For this cause when I could no longer forbeare, I sent to know your faith, lest by some meanes the tempter haue tempted you, and our labor be in vaine.6But now when Timotheus came from you vnto vs, and brought vs good tidings of your faith and charitie, and that ye haue good remembrance of vs alwayes, desiring greatly to see vs, as we also to see you:7Therefore brethren, wee were comforted ouer you in all our affliction and distresse, by your faith:8For now we liue, if ye stand fast in the Lord.9For what thankes can we render to God againe for you, for all the ioy wherewith wee ioy for your sakes before our God,10Night & day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?11Now God himselfe and our Father, and our Lord Iesus Christ direct our way vnto you.12And the Lorde make you to increase, & abound in loue one towards another, and towards all men, euen as we doe towards you:13To the end hee may stablish your hearts vnblameable in holinesse before God euen our Father, at the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ with all his Saints.
