For they themselves witness what kind of entrance we had to you, even how you turned from idols to God in order to serve the living and true God,

You and God are witnesses how holily and justly and blamelessly we were to you who believe,

even as you know how we exhorted and comforted and testified to each one of you, as a father to his children,

For the rest, then, my brothers, we beseech you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.

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