7 [3:1]When therefore we could no longer refrain, we thought it best to be left alone at Athens, [3:2]and sent Timothy, our brother and God's co-laborer in the gospel of Christ, to confirm you and to exhort you in behalf of your faith, [3:3]that no one should be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed for this; [3:4]for indeed when we came to you, we told you before that we were about to suffer affliction, as it also happened, and you know. [3:5]For this reason, being no longer able to forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest in some way the tempter should have tempted you, and our labor be in vain. 8 [3:6]But now Timothy having come to us from you and told us the good news of your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us, as we also you, [3:7]therefore we were comforted, brothers, on your account in all our affliction and distress by your faith, [3:8]for now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord. [3:9]For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you for all the joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God, [3:10]desiring exceedingly, night and day, to see your face, and to perfect what is lacking of your faith? 9 [3:11]And may God himself, even our Father, and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you; [3:12]and the Lord cause you to be full and abound with love one to another and to all men, as we also to you, [3:13]to confirm your hearts without blame in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. CHAPTER II. CHASTITY, BROTHERLY LOVE, THE STATE OF THE DEAD, THE COMING OF CHRIST, ETC. 1 [4:1]FINALLY, therefore, brothers, we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and please God, that you abound still more. [4:2]For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. [4:3]For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication, [4:4]that each one should know how to have his wife in purity and honor, [4:5]not with inordinate desires like the gentiles who know not God, [4:6]that he should not go beyond and defraud his brother in the matter, because the Lord is a punisher of all these, as we also told you before and fully testified. [4:7]For God has not called us to impurity, but to purity. [4:8]He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who also gives us his Holy Spirit. 2 [4:9]But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that I should write to you; for you are taught by God to love one another; [4:10]for you also do the same to all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, to abound still more, [4:11]and strive to be quiet and pursue your own business, and work with your hands, as we charged you, [4:12]that you may walk becomingly towards those without and have need of nothing.