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.
Finally ... The Phillips translation renders this, "to sum up"; but as Morris said, "This is not the thought; `finally' of English Revised Version (1885) and RSV is better.  Perhaps `for the rest' will give us the sense of it."[1]