ULT 1TH chapter 3

3 Therefore, enduring it no longer, we thought it good to be left behind in Athens alone, 2 and we sent Timothy, our brother and a servant of God[fn] in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you regarding your faith, 3 that no one be disturbed by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that for this we are appointed. 4 For also when we were with you, we were telling you in advance that we are about to be afflicted, just as also it happened and you know. 5 Because of this, I also, no longer enduring it, sent to know about your faith, lest somehow the tempter had tempted you, and our labor might have been in vain. 6 But just now Timothy has come to us from you and has told us the good news about your faith and love and that you always have good memory of us, longing to see us just as we also, you. 7 Because of this, brothers, we were encouraged about you in all our distress and affliction, through your faith. 8 For now we live, if you yourselves stand firm in the Lord. 9 For what thanks are we able to give back to God concerning you for all the joy with which we rejoice because of you before our God,[fn] 10 night and day pleading earnestly to see your face and to provide what is lacking in your faith?

11 But may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you. 12 Now may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we also toward you, 13 to strengthen your hearts, blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. Amen!

Instead of a servant of God, some ancient manuscripts read a fellow worker of God or fellow worker or a servant of God and our fellow worker.

Some ancient manuscripts replace the two occurrences of God with Lord.

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ULT 1TH Chapter 3