To this end, like an earnest wrestler, I exert all my strength in reliance upon the power of Him who is mightily at work within me.

Moreover, brethren, as you learnt from our lips the lives which you ought to live, and do live, so as to please God, we beg and exhort you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live them more and more truly.

and indeed you do love all the brethren throughout Macedonia. And we exhort you to do so more and more,

And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the timid, sustain the weak, and be patient towards all.

I exhort then, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be offered on behalf of all men;

So teach and exhort. If any one is a teacher of any other kind of doctrine, and refuses assent to wholesome instructions--those of our Lord Jesus Christ--and the teaching that harmonizes with true godliness,

Exert all your strength in the honourable struggle for the faith; lay hold of the Life of the Ages, to which you were called, when you made your noble profession of faith before many witnesses.

Exhort aged men to be temperate, grave, sober-minded, robust in their faith, their love and their patience.

In the same way exhort aged women to let their conduct be such as becomes consecrated persons. They must not be slanderers nor enslaved to wine-drinking. They must be teachers of what is right.

In the same way exhort the younger men to be discreet,

Exhort slaves to be always obedient to their owners, and to give them satisfaction in everything, not contradicting and not pilfering,

Thus speak, exhort, reprove, with all impressiveness. Let no one make light of your authority.

Bear with me, brethren, when I thus exhort you; for, in fact, it is but a short letter that I have written to you.

So I exhort the Elders among you--I who am their fellow Elder and have been an eye-witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and am also a sharer in the glory which is soon to be revealed.