American Standard Version
"to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory. "
— 1 Thessalonians 2:12, American Standard Version
“That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.”
“to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.”
“exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory.”
“We testified to every one of you that you would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.”
“So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory.”
“That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.”
For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and righteously and unblamably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe:
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,
to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.
And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.
For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judæa in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;
who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;