1Th 1 Thessalonians, chapter First Epistle to the Thessalonians, chapter 3
For this reason, enduring no longer, we thought good to be left in Athens alone, and sent Timotheus—our brother, and a servant of God, and our fellow-workman in the good news of the Christ—to establish yöu, and to comfort yöu concerning yöur faith, that no one be moved in these tribulations, for yöu have known that we are set for this, for even when we were with yöu, we said to yöu beforehand that we are about to suffer tribulation, as it also came to pass, and yöu have known [it]; because of this also, I, no longer enduring, sent to know yöur faith, lest he who is tempting tempted yöu, and our labor might be in vain. And Timotheus now having come to us from yöu, and having declared good news to us of yöur faith and love, and that yöu always have a good remembrance of us, desiring much to see us, as we also [to see] yöu, because of this we were comforted, brothers, over yöu, in all our tribulation and necessity, through yöur faith, because now we live, if yöu may stand fast in the LORD. For what thanks are we able to repay to God for yöu, for all the joy with which we delight because of yöu in the presence of our God, exceedingly imploring night and day, that we might see yöur face, and perfect the things lacking in yöur faith? And our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to yöu, and the LORD cause yöu to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to yöu, in order to have established yöur hearts, blameless in sanctification before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His holy ones.