For they themselves declare concerning us what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

You are witnesses, and God also, in how holy and just and blameless a manner we conducted our selves among you that believe,

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

Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you, by our Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to walk and please God, you would abound more and more.

That each one of you know how to keep his vessel in sanctification and in honor,