1 We could not wait. We stayed in the city of Athens. We were alone. ️ 2 We sent Timothy to you. He is our friend. He works for God. He came to help all of you be strong and happy in your trust in Jesus. ✝️ 3 We want all of you to stay strong when times are hard. You know we have hard times too. ️ 4 When we were with you, we said, “Hard times will come.” And hard times came. ⛈️✅ 5 I could not wait. I sent to see if you still trust Jesus. I did not want the bad one to trick you. I did not want our work to be for nothing. 6 Now Timothy came back to us. He gave good news. All of you still trust Jesus. All of you show God’s love. You think of us in a good way. You want to see us. We want to see you too. ❤️ 7 So we feel better now. We had many hard things. But we feel strong because you still trust Jesus. 8 Now we feel alive when all of you stand strong in the Lord. ♂️ 9 We thank God so much for you. We are very happy with God because of you. 10 We pray to God day and night. We ask to see all of you. We want to help your trust in Jesus grow more. 11 We ask God our Father and our Lord Jesus to lead us back to you. ♂️➡️ 12 We ask the Lord to make God’s love grow and grow in all of you. Love each other. Love all people. We love you like that. ❤️➡️ 13 We pray He makes your hearts strong and clean. We want you to stand with no blame before God our Father. This will be when our Lord Jesus comes with all His holy people. ✨