{"id":401,"date":"2026-05-03T22:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=401"},"modified":"2026-05-03T22:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:13:29","slug":"1-thessalonians-3-1-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"1 Thessalonians 3: 1-8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1 Therefore when we could <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">bear<\/mark> it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:2em\">2 and we sent <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Timothy<\/mark>, our brother and God&#8217;s coworker in the gospel of Christ, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:4em\">to establish and exhort you in your <mark style=\"background-color:#90dbf4\" class=\"has-inline-color\">faith<\/mark>, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:6em\">3 that no one be moved by these <mark style=\"background-color:#b9fbc0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">afflictions<\/mark>. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this. 4 For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, just as it has come to pass, and just as you know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 For this reason, when I could <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">bear<\/mark> it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:2em\">6 But now that <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Timothy<\/mark> has come to us from you, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:4em\">and has brought us the good news of your <mark style=\"background-color:#90dbf4\" class=\"has-inline-color\">faith<\/mark> and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you\u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:6em\">7 for this reason, brothers, in all our distress and <mark style=\"background-color:#b9fbc0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">affliction<\/mark> we have been comforted about you through your faith. 8 For now we live, if you are standing fast in the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone, 2 and we sent Timothy, our brother and God&#8217;s coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith, 3 that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-thessalonians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}