We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, because your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all towards one another abounds;

that ye be not soon shaken in mind, nor troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as if it were by us, as that the day of the Lord is present.

For the rest, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as also with you;

But we trust in the Lord as to you, that the things which we enjoin, ye both do and will do.

not that we have not the right, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.

and do not esteem him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.