1 Thessalonians 3:5 meaning and explanation
For 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.
1 Thessalonians 3:5, Berean Standard Bible
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Paul writes this while separated from the new believers in Thessalonica, likely from Athens or Corinth. He had already sent Timothy back to check on them, and here he names his real fear: that the tempter, a title for Satan, had used the persecution they faced to pull them away from faith, so that Paul's work among them would have been wasted.
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