Therefore, when we could no longer stand it, we thought it was better to be left alone in Athens.

Now, brothers, we ask and beg you, in the face of our union with the Lord Jesus, as you once received from us how you ought to live so as to please God -- as indeed you are living -- to continue to live this life better and better.

And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.

as you are practicing it toward all the brothers all over Macedonia. We beg you, brothers, to continue to live better and better;