for they themselves report, concerning us, what manner of entrance 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 unblamably we behaved toward you who believe;

as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying,

Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk, and to please God??ven as ye also are walking??hat ye abound more and more;

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