Recalling continually before our God and Father the efforts that have resulted from your faith, the toil prompted by your love, and the patient endurance sustained by your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Because the Good News that we brought came home to you, not merely as so many words, but with a power and a fulness of conviction due to the Holy Spirit. For you know the life that we lived among you for your good.

But, when Timothy recently returned to us from you with good news of your faith and love, and told us how kindly you think of us--always longing, he said, to see us, just as we are longing to see you--

For it is new life to us to know that you are holding fast to the Lord.

And for you, may the Lord fill you to overflowing with love for one another and for every one, just as we are filled with love for you;

Further, Brothers, we beg and exhort you in the name of our Lord Jesus to carry out more fully than ever--as indeed you are already doing--all that you have heard from us as to what your daily life must be, if it is to please God.

For God's Call to us does not permit of an impure life, but demands purity.

As to love for the Brethren there is no need to write to you; for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another;

Make it your ambition to live quietly, and to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we directed you;

But let us, who belong to the Day, control ourselves, and put on faith and love as a breast plate, and the hope of Salvation as a helmet.

That, whether we are still watching or have fallen asleep, we may live with him.

Hold them in the very greatest esteem and affection for the sake of their work. Live at peace with one another.