1 Thessalonians 3:7-13

7So in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, through your faith.

8For now we are alive again, if you stand firm in the Lord.

9For how can we thank God enough for you, for all the joy we feel because of you before our God?

10We pray earnestly night and day to see you in person and make up what may be lacking in your faith.

11Now may God our Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you.

12And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you,

13so that your hearts are strengthened in holiness to be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.