and patient endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope,

Because for this [reason] also I wrote, in order that I could know your proven character, whether you are obedient in everything.

For if I have boasted anything to him about you, I have not been put to shame, but as I have spoken everything to you in truth, thus also our boasting to Titus {has proven to be true}.

Through the proven character of this service [they will] glorify God because of the submission of your confession to the gospel of Christ and the generosity of [your] participation toward them and toward everyone,

But you know his proven character, that like a child with a father he served with me for the gospel.