A   UVherfore sence we coulde no lenger forbeare / it pleased vs to remayne at Athens alone / ^note and sent Timotheus oure brother and minister of god / and oure laboure felowe in the gospell of Christ / to stablysshe you ∧ to c&obar;forte you over youre fayth / þt; no m&abar; shulde be moved in these afflicci&obar;s.

B   For ye youre selves knowe that we are even apoynted therevnto. For verely when I was with you / I tolde you before that we shulde suffre tribulacion / even as it came to passe / ∧ as ye knowe. For this cause / when I coulde no lenger forbeare / I sent / that I myght have knowledge of youre fayth / lest haply the tempter had tempted you / and that oure laboure had bene bestowed in vayne.

But now lately wh&ebar; Timotheus came fr&obar; you vnto vs / and declared to vs youre fayth ∧ youre love and how that ye have good remembraunce of vs all wayes / desyringe to se vs as we desyre to se you. C   Therfore brethr&ebar; we had consolacion in you / in all oure adversite ∧ necessite / through youre fayth. For now are we alyve / yf ye stonde stedfast in the lorde. For what thankes can we recompence to god agayne for you / over all the ioye that we ioye for youre sakes before oure god / whyle we / nyght and daye praye excedingly that we myght se you presently / and myght fulfill that wich is lackynge in youre fayth.

God him silfe oure father and oure lorde Iesus Christ gyde oure iorney vnto you: and the lorde increace you ∧ make you flowe ouer D    in love one towarde another / and towarde all men / even as we do towarde you / to make youre hertes stable and vnblameable / in holynes before God oure father / at the commynge of oure Lorde Iesus Christ / with all his sainctes.

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