for they themselves relate concerning us what entering in we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and righteously and blamelessly we have conducted ourselves with you that believe:

as ye know how, as a father his own children, we used to exhort each one of you, and comfort and testify,

For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,