for they proclaim concerning what kind of reception we had unto you; and how you turned to God from the idols, to serve the true and the living God,

You are witnesses, and God, how sacredly and righteously and blamelessly we were unto you who believed:

Finally therefore, brethren, we pray you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how it behooves you to walk about and to please God, as you do indeed walk about, in order that you may abound more and more.

that each one of you know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,