1 Tessalonicenses 3

1 Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone, 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 that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task. 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 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 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 For this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith. 8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. 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 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

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

1 Nā, i te kore e taea te ngākau te pēhi tonu, i pai mātou kia mahue ko mātou anake i Atene; 2 ā, tonoa ana e mātou a Tīmoti, tō mātou teina, he minita nā te Atua, he hoa mahi nō mātou ki te rongopai o te Karaiti, hei whakaū i a koutou, hei kōrero whakamārie ki a koutou mō ngā mea o tō koutou whakapono. 3 Kei whakangāueuetia tētahi e ēnei tūkinotanga. E mātau ana anō hoki koutou he mea momotu kē tātou mō tēnei mea. 4 I a mātou hoki e noho ana i a koutou, i kōrero wawe anō mātou ki a koutou, tērā tātou e tūkinotia; koia anō tēnei, ka mātau nei koutou. 5 Nā reira, i te mea tē taea tōku ngākau te pēhi tonu, ka tono tāngata atu ahau kia mōhio ai ahau ki tō koutou whakapono, kei whakawaia pea koutou e te kaiwhakawai, ā, maumau kau tā mātou mahi.

6 Tēnā ko tēnei, ka tae mai nei a Tīmoti ki a mātou i a koutou, ka pai hoki tāna kōrero ki a mātou mō tō koutou whakapono, mō tō koutou aroha, mō koutou hoki e whai mahara pai ana ki a mātou i ngā wā katoa, e hiahia ana kia kite i a mātou, he pērā anō me tō mātou ki a koutou. 7 Nā, kua whai whakamārietanga mātou i a koutou, e ōku tēina, i ō mātou tūkinotanga katoa, i ō mātou matenga, he mea nā tō koutou whakapono. 8 Ko tō mātou ora nei hoki tēnei, arā, kia tū tonu koutou i runga i te Ariki. 9 Me aha hoki he whakawhetai mā mātou ki te Atua mō koutou, mō ngā hari katoa e hari nei mātou ki a koutou, i te aroaro o tō tātou Atua? 10 Nui atu tā mātou īnoi i te pō, i te ao, kia kite i ō koutou kanohi, kia whakaotia anō hoki e mātou ngā wāhi o tō koutou whakapono i hapa.

11 Nā, mā te Atua ake anō, arā mā tō tātou Matua, mā tō tātou Ariki hoki, mā Īhu Karaiti, e whakatika tō mātou ara ki a koutou. 12 Mā te Ariki anō hoki e mea kia nui, kia hira tō koutou aroha tētahi, ki tētahi, ki ngā tāngata katoa hoki, kia pēnei anō me tō mātou ki a koutou. 13 Kia whakaūkia ai ō koutou ngākau he mea kāhore he hē i runga i te tapu i te aroaro o te Atua, o tō tātou Matua, i te taenga mai o tō tātou Ariki, o Īhu Karaiti, rātou ko tāna hunga tapu katoa.