1 Thessalonians 3:4-6

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

⁴ For even when we were with you, we were telling you beforehand that we were going to be afflicted, just as indeed it happened, and just as you know. ⁵ For this reason, and I bearing it no longer, I sent Timothy so as to know your faith— that the one tempting had not somehow tempted you and our labor proved-to-be in vain^[a].

Timothy Now Returned With Encouraging News About Your Faith And Love. I Am Rejoicing!

⁶ And Timothy having just-now^[b] come to us from you, and having announced-the-good-news to us as to your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us always^[c], yearning to see us just as we also you—