Therefore [when we] could bear [it] no longer, we determined to be left behind in Athens alone,

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.

Therefore the one who rejects [this] [is] not rejecting man, but God, [who] also gives his Holy Spirit to you.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Therefore encourage one another and build up {each other}, just as indeed you are doing.