{"id":415,"date":"2026-04-21T06:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:24:07","slug":"1-thessalonians-2-17-3-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"1 Thessalonians 2: 17-3: 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2:17 But since <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">we were torn away from you<\/mark>, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:2em\">we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">face to face<\/mark>, 18 because we wanted to come to you\u2014I, Paul, again and again\u2014but Satan hindered us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:4em\">19 For what is our hope or <mark style=\"background-color:#90dbf4\" class=\"has-inline-color\">joy<\/mark> or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you? 20 For you are our glory and <mark style=\"background-color:#90dbf4\" class=\"has-inline-color\">joy<\/mark>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:4em\">[&#8230;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:4em\">3:9 For what thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the <mark style=\"background-color:#90dbf4\" class=\"has-inline-color\">joy<\/mark> that we feel for your sake before our God, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:2em\">10 as we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">face to face<\/mark> and supply what is lacking in your faith?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">direct our way to you<\/mark>, 12 and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you, 13 so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2:17 But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face, 18 because we wanted to come to you\u2014I, Paul, again and again\u2014but Satan hindered us. 19 For what is our hope [&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-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-thessalonians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}