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title: "1 Thessalonians 3 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate"
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description: "The apostle's concern and love for the Thessalonians. 1 Thessalonians 3 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# 1 Thessalonians 3

1 Thessalonians 3 is chapter 3 of 5 in the First Letter to the Thessalonians. Here are all 13 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The apostle's concern and love for the Thessalonians.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 1 Thessalonians 3 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Because of this, willing to wait no longer, it was pleasing to us to remain at Athens, alone.
2. And we sent Timothy, our brother and a minister of God in the Gospel of Christ, to confirm you and to exhort you, on behalf of your faith,
3. so that no one would be disturbed during these tribulations. For you yourselves know that we have been appointed to this.
4. For even while we were with you, we predicted to you that we would suffer tribulations, even as it has happened, and as you know.
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.
6. But then, when Timothy arrived to us from you, he reported to us your faith and charity, and that you keep a good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us, just as we likewise desire to see you.
7. As a result, we were consoled in you, brothers, in the midst of all our difficulties and tribulations, through your faith.
8. For we now live so that you may stand firm in the Lord.
9. For what thanks would we be able to repay to God because of you, for all the joy with which we rejoice over you before our God?
10. For night and day, ever more abundantly, we are praying that we may see your face, and that we may complete those things that are lacking in your faith.
11. But may God our Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.
12. And may the Lord multiply you, and make you abound in your charity toward one another and toward all, just as we also do toward you,
13. in order to confirm your hearts without blame, in sanctity, before God our Father, unto the return of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints. Amen.

## 1 Thessalonians 3 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Propter quod non sustinentes amplius, placuit nobis remanere Athenis, solis:
2. et misimus Timotheum fratrem nostrum, et ministrum Dei in Evangelio Christi, ad confirmandos vos, et exhortandos pro fide vestra:
3. ut nemo moveatur in tribulationibus istis: ipsi enim scitis quod in hoc positi sumus.
4. Nam et cum apud vos essemus, prædicebamus vobis passuros nos tribulationes, sicut et factum est, et scitis.
5. Propterea et ego amplius non sustinens, misi ad cognoscendam fidem vestram: ne forte tentaverit vos is qui tentat, et inanis fiat labor noster.
6. Nunc autem veniente Timotheo ad nos a vobis, et annuntiante nobis fidem et caritatem vestram, et quia memoriam nostri habetis bonam semper, desiderantes nos videre, sicut et nos quoque vos:
7. ideo consolati sumus, fratres, in vobis in omni necessitate et tribulatione nostra, per fidem vestram,
8. quoniam nunc vivimus, si vos statis in Domino.
9. Quam enim gratiarum actionem possumus Deo retribuere pro vobis in omni gaudio, quo gaudemus propter vos ante Deum nostrum,
10. nocte ac die abundantius orantes, ut videamus faciem vestram, et compleamus ea quæ desunt fidei vestræ?
11. Ipse autem Deus, et Pater noster, et Dominus noster Jesus Christus, dirigat viam nostram ad vos.
12. Vos autem Dominus multiplicet, et abundare faciat caritatem vestram in invicem, et in omnes, quemadmodum et nos in vobis:
13. ad confirmanda corda vestra sine querela in sanctitate, ante Deum et Patrem nostrum, in adventu Domini nostri Jesu Christi cum omnibus sanctis ejus. Amen.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Thu, Aug 26, 2027 (computed): Thursday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, 1 Thessalonians 3:7-13
- Sun, Nov 28, 2027 (computed): First Sunday of Advent — Second Reading, 1 Thessalonians 3:12—4:2

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).