Discovery Box1 Thessalonians 3:5-8 
Context3:5 So 1 when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter somehow tempted you and our toil had proven useless.
3:6 But now Timothy has come 2 to us from you and given us the good news of your faith and love and that you always think of us with affection 3 and long to see us just as we also long to see you! 4 3:7 So 5 in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, 6 through your faith. 3:8 For now we are alive again, 7 if you stand firm in the Lord.
1 tn Or “for this reason.”
2 tn Grk “but now Timothy having come,” a subordinate clause leading to the main clause of v. 7.
3 tn Grk “you have a good remembrance of us always.”
4 tn Grk “just as also we you.”
5 tn Or “for this reason.”
6 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:4.
7 tn Grk “because now we live,” in comparison with his feelings of dread in not knowing how they were doing (cf. 2:17-3:5).
