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


In Context

8 so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,

9 for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

10 ye are witnesses — God also — how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

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

12 for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.

13 Because of this also, we — we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work 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 World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

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,