Holy Scripture
1 Thessalonians 3:1
A church father on this verse
“Seest thou how God permits trials, and by them stirs up and awakens the disciples, and makes them more energetic? Then let us not sink down under trials: for He Himself will "also make the way of escape, that we may be able to bear them." Nothing so makes friends, and rivets them so firmly, as affliction: nothing so f…”
Source: KJV New Testament
Original
1Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
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— 1 Thessalonians 3:1 —
2And 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:
3That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.