“Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. beseech: or, request exhort: or, beseech”
Divers exhortations, the ground whereof is this, to be mindful of those things, which they have heard of the Apostle. That ye labor to excel more and more, and daily pass yourselves.