For [they] themselves report about us, what sort of welcome we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve [the] living and true God,

You [are] witnesses, and [so is] God, how devoutly and righteously and blamelessly we became to you who believe,

just as you know how [we treated] each one of you, like a father his own children,

Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you and appeal to [you] in the Lord Jesus that, just as you have received from us how it is necessary for you to live and to please God, just as indeed you are living, that you progress even more.

[that] each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,