Bishops(i)
2 And sent Timotheus, our brother and minister of God, and felowe labourer in the Gospell of Christe, to stablishe you & to comfort you concernyng your faith
3 That no man shoulde be moued in these afflictions: For ye your selues knowe, that we are appoynted therevnto
4 For veryly when we were with you, we tolde you before that we shoulde suffer tribulation, euen as it came to passe, and [as] ye knowe
5 For this cause, when I coulde no longer forbeare, I sent to knowe your fayth, lest by some meanes the tempter had tempted you, and our labour had ben vayne
6 But nowe lately, when Timotheus came from you vnto vs, and brought vs good tydynges of your fayth and loue, and howe that ye haue good remembraunce of vs alwayes, desiryng to see vs, as we also [to see] you
7 Therefore brethren we were comforted ouer you, in all our aduersitie and necessitie, because of your fayth
8 For nowe we lyue, yf ye stande fast in the Lorde