For they themselves show of us what manner of entrance we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God;

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and justly, and unblamably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

As ye know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor;