Timothy's Encouraging Report and Paul's Prayer for Strength and Love
1 Thessalonians 3:6-13
6Now then, Timothy came to us from you and announced good news to us concerning your faith and your love, and that you always have good remembrance of us while longing to see us just as we also long to see you.7For this reason we were comforted, brothers, concerning you in all our necessity and pressure, because of your faith.8For now we live if you stand in the Lord.9For what thankfulness can we repay to God concerning you for all the joy in which we rejoice because of you before our God,10praying night and day superabundantly to see your face and to complete the deficiencies of your faith,11May our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, guide our way to you.12May the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all, just as we also do toward you,13so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his holy ones.