[because we] remember your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,

exhorting and consoling you and insisting that you live in a manner worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory.

But now, [because] Timothy has come to us from you and has brought good news to us of your faith and love, and that {you always think kindly of us}, desiring to see us just as also we [desire to see] you,

because now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord.

and [may] the Lord [cause] you to increase and to abound in love for one another and for all, just as also we [do] for you,

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.

But concerning brotherly love, I do not have need to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to {your own business}, and to work with your hands, just as we commanded you,

so that you may live decently toward those outside, and may have need of nothing.

But [because] we are of the day, we must be sober, [by] putting on the breastplate of faith and love and [as] a helmet the hope of salvation,

who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live at the same time with him.

and to esteem them beyond all measure in love, because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.