So in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, through your faith.

For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

and to esteem them most highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

For how can we thank God enough for you, for all the joy we feel because of you before our God?

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.

in that our gospel did not come to you merely in words, but in power and in the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction (surely you recall the character we displayed when we came among you to help you).

So when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter somehow tempted you and our toil had proven useless.

And so we too constantly thank God that when you received God’s message that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human message, but as it truly is, God’s message, which is at work among you who believe.