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"1": "Therefore, enduring it no longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,",
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"2": "and we sent Timothy, our brother and a servant of God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and to comfort you regarding your faith,\n\\f + \\ft Some other versions read,\\fqa we sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ\\fqa*.\\f*",
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"3": "that no one be disturbed by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that for this we are appointed.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"4": "For even when we were with you, we were telling you in advance that we were about to suffer affliction, and it happened, just as you also know.",
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"5": "Because of this, I also no longer enduring it, sent to know about your faith, lest the tempter had somehow tempted you, and our labor might have been in vain.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"6": "But just now Timothy has come to us from you and has brought us the good news of your faith and love, and that you always have good memories of us, longing to see us just as we also, you.",
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"7": "Because of this, brothers, we were comforted by you because of your faith, in all our distress and affliction.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"8": "For now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord.",
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"9": "For what thanks are we able to give to God concerning you, for all the joy in which we rejoice before our God because of you,",
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"10": "night and day pleading earnestly to see your face and provide what is lacking in your faith?\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
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"11": "But may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you.",
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"12": "And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love one for another and toward all people, just as we also toward you;",
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"13": "to strengthen your hearts, blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. Amen!\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"front": "\\p"
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}
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