As a result, we rejoice about you among God's churches about your endurance and faith through all the persecutions and afflictions you are experiencing.

With this in mind, we always pray for you, asking that our God might make you worthy of his calling and that through his power he might help you accomplish every good desire and faithful action.

At all times we are obligated to thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God chose you to be the first fruits for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through faith in the truth.

With this purpose in mind, he called you through our proclamation of the gospel so that you would obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah.

We order and encourage such people by the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.