Part 2

52:002:017 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

52:002:018 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.

52:002:019 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

52:002:020 For ye are our glory and joy.

52:003:001 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;

52:003:002 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:

52:003:003 That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

52:003:004 For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

52:003:005 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

52:003:006 But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:

52:003:007 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

52:003:008 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

52:003:009 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;

52:003:010 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

52:003:011 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.

52:003:012 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

52:003:013 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

52:004:001 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

52:004:002 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

52:004:003 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

52:004:004 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

52:004:005 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

52:004:006 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

52:004:007 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

52:004:008 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

52:004:009 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

52:004:010 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;

52:004:011 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;