NASB
"just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children,"
— 1 Thessalonians 2:11, NASB
“As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,”
“as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying, ”
“As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,”
“As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children,”
“As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you (as a father doth his children),”
“Even as you saw how, like a father with his children, we were teaching and comforting you all, and giving witness,”
“As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,”
Having so fond an affection for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us.
For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and uprightly and blamelessly we behaved toward you believers;
just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children,
so that you would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.
For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews,