5 Oh that my ways may rbe steadfast
in keeping your statutes!
32 but dI have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, estrengthen your brothers.”
2 And the chief priests and the scribes twere seeking how to put him to death, for they feared the people.
1 Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing dto be left behind at Athens alone, 2 and we esent Timothy, four brother and God’s coworker1 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 that gwe are destined for this. 4 For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, hjust as it has come to pass, and just as you know. 5 For this reason, iwhen I could bear it no longer, iI sent to learn about your faith, jfor fear that somehow kthe tempter had tempted you and lour labor would be in vain.