For they themselves report about us what kind of a reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless we behaved toward you believers;

for you know how, as a father with his own children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you

Finally, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are doing, you do so more and more.

that each one of you know how to take his own spouse for himself in holiness and honor,