1 Thessalonians 3:5 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ For 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ That is the reason that, when I could bear [the suspense] no longer, I sent that I might learn [how you were standing the strain, and the endurance of] your faith, [for I was fearful] lest somehow the tempter had tempted you and our toil [among you should prove to] be fruitless and to no purpose.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.

Common English Bible

⁵ That’s why I sent Timothy to find out about your faithfulness when I couldn’t stand it anymore. I was worried that the tempter might have tempted you so that our work would have been a waste of time.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ For this reason also, I was not willing to wait any longer, and I sent to find out about your faith, lest perhaps he who tempts may have tempted you, and our labor might have been in vain.

1 Thessalonians 3:5 Tagairtí Cros

Isaiah 49:4

But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my cause is with the Lord, and my reward with my God.”

Daniel 6:19

Then, at break of day, the king got up and hurried to the den of lions.

Matthew 4:3

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

Acts 15:36

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Come, let us return and visit the believers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord and see how they are doing.”

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not deprive one another except perhaps by agreement for a set time, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

2 Corinthians 2:11

And we do this so that we may not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.

2 Corinthians 6:1

As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.

Galatians 2:2

I went up in response to a revelation. Then I laid before them (though only in a private meeting with the acknowledged leaders) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure that I was not running, or had not run, in vain.

Galatians 4:11

I am afraid that my work for you may have been wasted.

Ephesians 4:14

We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people's trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming.

Philippians 2:16

It is by your holding fast to the word of life that I can boast on the day of Christ that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

Philippians 2:19

I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I may be cheered by news of you.

1 Thessalonians 2:1

You yourselves know, brothers and sisters, that our coming to you was not in vain,

1 Thessalonians 3:6

But Timothy has just now come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love. He has told us also that you always remember us kindly and long to see us—just as we long to see you.