For the people themselves tell us what a welcome you gave us, and how you turned from idols to the true God, to serve the God who lives on and is real,

You can testify, and God too, with what pure, upright, and irreproachable motives I dealt with you who believed;

For what is our hope or happiness or crown of boasting, except you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ when He comes?

as night and day I continue to pray with deepest earnestness and keenest eagerness that I may see your faces and round out to completeness what is lacking in your faith?

but continue to prove all things until you can approve them, and then hold on to what is good.