Catholic Public Domain Version
"in which we were pleading with you and consoling you, bearing witness, so that you would walk in a manner worthy of God, who has called you into his kingdom and glory. "
— 1 Thessalonians 2:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.”
“to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own 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 you remember, brothers, our hardship and weariness. We preached the Gospel of God among you, working night and day, so that we would not be burdensome to any of you.
You are witnesses, as is God, of how holy and just and blameless we were with you who have believed.
And you know the manner, with each one of you, like a father with his sons,
in which we were pleading with you and consoling you, bearing witness, so that you would walk in a manner worthy of God, who has called you into his kingdom and glory.
For this reason also, we give thanks to God without ceasing: because, when you had accepted from us the Word of the hearing of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but (as it truly is) as the Word of God, who is working in you who have believed.
For you, brothers, have become imitators of the churches of God which are at Judea, in Christ Jesus. For you, too, have suffered the same things from your fellow countrymen as they have suffered from the Jews,
who also killed both the Lord Jesus, and the Prophets, and who have persecuted us. But they do not please God, and so they are adversaries to all men.