I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.

Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.

We proclaim him by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature in Christ.

Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who labor among you and preside over you in the Lord and admonish you,

And we urge you, brothers and sisters, admonish the undisciplined, comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient toward all.

But I myself am fully convinced about you, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.