Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, just as you are in fact doing.

As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children,

So in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, through your faith.

And indeed you are practicing it toward all the brothers and sisters in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more,

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

We sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and encourage you about your faith,

Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about how you must live and please God (as you are in fact living) that you do so more and more.