For our appeal to you does not spring from deceit, impure motives, or trickery.

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

We for our part constantly thank God for another reason too??ecause when you received God's message from our lips, you welcomed it not as the message of men but as the message of God, as it really is, which does its work in the hearts of you believers.

May the Lord make you increase and overflow in love for one another and for all men, as my love for you does,

For God's Call to us does not permit of an impure life, but demands purity.

Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

Make sure that no one does anything wrong to someone who wrongs him, but always look for something good you can do for one another and for everyone.