"As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father {doth} his children," — 1 Thessalonians 2:11

1 Thessalonians 2:11 · KJV

“As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father {doth} his children,”

— 1 Thessalonians 2:11

Ye {are} witnesses, and God {also}, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

1 Thessalonians 2 — Context

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

Ye {are} witnesses, and God {also}, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father {doth} his children,

That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received {it} not {as} the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:14-15

I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn {you}.

Hebrews 13:22

And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.

1 Timothy 5:21

I charge {thee} before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality. {preferring...: or, prejudice}

2 Timothy 4:1-2

I charge {thee} therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

2 Thessalonians 3:12

Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

Deuteronomy 3:28

But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. {comfort: or, exhort}

1 Thessalonians 2:7

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: