Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
You remember in the first chapter, Paul said that everywhere they had such love. Not only for . . . their love was known and all. It was something that was a mark of the church there in Thessalonica, and the word of their love has spread abroad.