For they themselves show of us what manner of welcome we had unto you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and just and unblamable was our behavior among you that believe:

As you know how we exhorted and encouraged and charged every one of you, as a father does his children,

Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received of us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.

That every one of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor;