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That I might know (eis to gnōnai). Paul’s common idiom (1Th 3:2), eis to and the infinitive of purpose (second aorist ingressive active of ginōskō, come to know).
Lest by any means the tempter had tempted you (mē pōs epeirasen humās ho peirazōn). Findlay takes this as a question with negative answer, but most likely negative final clause with mē pōs about a past action with aorist indicative according to the classic idiom as in Gal 2:2 (mē pōṡ̇edramon) and Gal 4:11 after verb of fearing (Robertson, Grammar, p. 988). It is a fear that the thing may turn out to be so about the past.
Should be (genētai). Here the usual construction appears (aorist subjunctive with mē pōs) about the future.