11As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,


In Context

8 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

10 You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

1 Thessalonians 2:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:11As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father [doth] his children,

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:11For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children,

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:11As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you, (as a father doth his children,)

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:11as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you , and testifying,

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:11as ye know how, as a father his own children, we used to exhort each one of you, and comfort and testify,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:11as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying,

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:11As ye know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:11even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:11As you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father does his children,