7. for this reason we have been comforted in you, brethren, in all our distress and tribulation, through your faith,
8. because now we live if ye stand firm in the Lord.
9. For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on account of you before our God,
10. night and day beseeching exceedingly to the end that we may see your face, and perfect what is lacking in your faith?
11. But our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you.
12. But you, may the Lord make to exceed and abound in love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also towards you,
13. in order to the confirming of your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.