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1 Por lo tanto, cuando ya no pudimos soportarlo más, decidimos quedarnos solos en Atenas.
1 Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,
2 Por eso les enviamos a Timoteo, hermano nuestro y colaborador de Dios en el anuncio del evangelio de Cristo, para que los anime y haga más firmes en su fe,
2 and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,
3 y así nadie dude a causa de estos sufrimientos. Ustedes saben bien que para esto se nos destinó.
3 that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
4 Cuando todavía estábamos con ustedes, les advertimos que íbamos a sufrir mucho. Y como ustedes saben, así sucedió.
4 For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.
5 Por eso, cuando ya no pude soportar más, envié a Timoteo para que se informara de cómo estaban ustedes en cuanto a su fe. Temía que el tentador los hubiera hecho caer y que nuestro trabajo hubiera sido en vano.
5 For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
6 Timoteo acaba de regresar de Tesalónica con las buenas noticias de la fe y del amor de ustedes. También nos dice que nos recuerdan con cariño y que tienen tantas ganas de vernos, como nosotros a ustedes.
6 But Timothy has just now come to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you.
7 Por eso, hermanos, a pesar de todas nuestras angustias y sufrimientos, ustedes nos han animado por medio de su fe.
7 For this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.
8 Nos reanima el saber que ustedes están firmes en el Señor.
8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
9 ¿Cómo podremos agradecer suficientemente a Dios por ustedes y por la alegría que nos han dado delante de él?
9 For what thanksgiving can we give again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,
10 Día y noche le suplicamos que nos permita volver a verlos para completar lo que le falta a su fe.
10 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
11 Le rogamos a Dios nuestro Padre, y a nuestro Señor Jesús, que preparen nuestro camino para poder ir a verlos.
11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.
12 Le rogamos al Señor que los haga crecer y que ustedes se amen más unos a otros y a todos, así como nosotros los amamos a ustedes.
12 May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
13 Le rogamos a Dios que fortalezca sus corazones, y que, cuando nuestro Señor Jesús venga con todos sus santos, ustedes vivan en santidad y nadie pueda acusarlos de nada delante de nuestro Dios y Padre.
13 to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
Cross references (13)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Acts 17:15; 1 Thessalonians 3:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:17; Jeremiah 20:9; 2 Corinthians 2:13
- 2 Acts 14:22–23; Ephesians 6:21–22; Philippians 2:19–25; 1 Corinthians 16:10–12; Acts 16:1
- 3 Acts 14:22; Romans 5:3; Acts 9:16; John 16:33; Acts 21:13
- 4 1 Thessalonians 2:14; 2 Corinthians 8:1–2; 1 Thessalonians 2:2; Acts 17:13; John 16:1–3
- 5 James 1:13–14; Matthew 4:3; 2 Corinthians 2:11; Galatians 1:6–9; Philippians 2:16
- 6 1 Corinthians 11:2; Isaiah 52:7; Acts 18:5; 1 Thessalonians 1:3; Proverbs 25:25
- 7 2 Corinthians 1:4; 2 John 4; 1 Thessalonians 3:8–9; 2 Corinthians 7:6–7; 1 Corinthians 4:9–13
- 8 1 Corinthians 16:13; Colossians 1:23; Revelation 3:11; Hebrews 4:14; Hebrews 10:23
- 9 2 Corinthians 9:15; Psalm 96:12–13; Psalm 71:14–15; 1 Thessalonians 1:2–3; 1 Thessalonians 3:7–8
- 10 2 Corinthians 13:9; Romans 1:10–12; 1 Thessalonians 3:11; Romans 15:30–32; Philippians 1:25
- 11 Proverbs 3:5–6; Matthew 6:32; 2 Thessalonians 2:16; 1 Thessalonians 3:13; Luke 12:32
- 12 Philippians 1:9; Romans 13:8; 1 John 4:7–16; Matthew 22:39; 2 Thessalonians 1:3
- 13 Colossians 1:22; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Ephesians 5:27; 1 Thessalonians 2:19; Jude 14
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
A question lies before us to-day, which is much disputed, and which is gathered from many sources. But what is this question? "For this cause," he says, "when I could no longer forbear, I sent Timothy that I might know your faith." What sayest thou?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 13 (1889)
"But now we live, if ye, Brethren, stand fast in the Lord." I would not that ye should stand fast in us, but in the Lord.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
are not even ye?" at another, "Now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord;" at another, "Out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you;" and, "Who is weak, and I am not weak?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do towards you; to the end He may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints." Now what Lord does he entreat to stablish the hearts of the faithful at Thessalonica, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
… joying and beholding your order, and that which is lacking in your faith in Christ." And in that to the Thessalonians: "Night and day," he says, "praying more abundantly, that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith." Here we are, of course, to understand those who were under such primary catechetical instruction, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)