and [may] the Lord [cause] you to increase and to abound in love for one another and for all, just as also we [do] for you,

But, Timothy having just now come to us from you, and having brought us good tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us at all times, longing to see us, as we also to see you??7 for this reason, brethren, we were comforted over you, in all our tribulation and distress, through your faith;

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.

not to transgress and to exploit his brother in the matter, because the Lord [is] the one who avenges concerning all these [things], just as also we told you beforehand and testified solemnly.

May the Lord strengthen your hearts so you will be [found] without just blame and holy, in the presence of our God and Father, when our Lord Jesus Christ returns with all of His holy ones [i.e., angels. See Mark 8:38; II Thess. 1:7].

But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel [that tells the good news of salvation through faith in Christ], so we speak, not as [if we were trying] to please people [to gain power and popularity], but to please God who examines our hearts [expecting our best].

just as ye know, as each one of you as a father of his own children, imploring you, and comforting,

For ye, brothers, became imitators of the congregations of God, which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because ye also suffered the same things by your own countrymen, just as also they by the Jews.

For also when we were with you we foretold you that we were going to be oppressed, just as it also happened, and ye know.

and to aspire to live quietly, and to do your own things, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you,

Therefore encourage each other, and build ye up one by one, just as ye also are doing.

You are witnesses??nd so is God??ow pure and just and blameless was my behavior among you believers.

Not with a passion of coveting, - just as even the nations who know not God, -

As soon as they begin to say - Peace! and safety! then, suddenly, upon them, cometh destruction, - just as the birth-throe unto her that is with child, - and in nowise shall they escape.

For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.