But let us, being of the day, be sober having put on the breastplate of faith and truth and a hope helmet of salvation because the God has not set us unto any quality of wrath, but unto possessing salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
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Wherefore, when we could no longer remain silent, we thought it good to be left in Athens alone, and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our coworker in the gospel of the Christ, to establish you and encourage you concerning your faith, so that no one makes you agreeable by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are laid unto this.
For our encouragement was not out from error nor out from uncleanliness or in deceit. But just as we are in a state of being approved by God to be entrusted the gospel, thus we speak, not as pleasing men, but by God, the One testing our hearts.
