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1 Thessalonians 3:5

WEB

5For 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.

KJV

5For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

BSB

5For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted you and caused our labor to be in vain.

FBV

5This is why, when I couldn't stand it anymore, I sent to find out whether you were still trusting in God. I was concerned that the devil[+] had successfully tempted you and that all our work had been for nothing!

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Exhortation to a Faithful Church (1 Thessalonians 3-4) - Grace to You
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God Destined Your Afflictions — Don’t Be Shaken! 1 Thessalonians 3:1–5, Part 3 - Desiring God

Extra References

James 1:13-14

13Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. 14But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

Matthew 4:3

3The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

2 Corinthians 2:11

11that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

Philippians 2:16

16holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

Galatians 1:6-9

6I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”, 7but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ. 8But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed. 9As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any “good news” other than that which you received, let him be cursed.

Ephesians 4:14

14that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

Isaiah 49:4

4But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with the LORD, and my reward with my God.”

1 Corinthians 7:5

5Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles. 14And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. 15It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

Galatians 2:2

2I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.