But [when] we were made orphans by separation from you, brothers, for {a short time} (in face, not in heart), [we were] even more eager with great desire to see your face,

because we wanted to come to you--I, Paul, {on more than one occasion}--and Satan hindered us.

Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you and appeal to [you] in the Lord Jesus that, just as you have received from us how it is necessary for you to live and to please God, just as indeed you are living, that you progress even more.

for indeed you are practicing it toward all the brothers in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to progress even more,