1 Thessalonians 2:11
Good News Translation
You know that we treated each one of you just as parents treat their own children.

New Revised Standard Version
As you know, we dealt with each one of you like a father with his children,

Contemporary English Version
You also know we did everything for you that parents would do for their own children.

New American Bible
As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his children,

Douay-Rheims Bible
As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you (as a father doth his children),

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you (as a father doth his children),

have.

1 Thessalonians 4:1 For the rest therefore, brethren, pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus that, as you have received from us, how you ought to walk and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 For which cause comfort one another and edify one another, as you also do.

Acts 20:2 And when he had gone over those parts and had exhorted them with many words, he came into Greece:

2 Thessalonians 3:12 Now we charge them that are such and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread.

1 Timothy 6:2 But they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but serve them the rather, because they are faithful and beloved, who are partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.

Titus 2:6,9,15 Young men, in like manner, exhort that they be sober. . . .

Hebrews 13:22 And I beseech you, brethren, that you suffer this word of consolation. For I have written to you in a few words.

charged.

Numbers 27:19 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest and all the multitude:

Deuteronomy 3:28 Command Josue, and encourage and strengthen him: for he shall go before this people, and shall divide unto them the land which thou shalt see.

Deuteronomy 31:14 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold the days of thy death are nigh: call Josue, and stand ye in the tabernacle of the testimony, that I may give him a charge. So Moses and Josue went and stood in the tabernacle of the testimony:

Ephesians 4:17 This then I say and testify in the Lord: That henceforward you walk not as also the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind:

1 Timothy 5:7,21 And this give in charge, that they may be blameless. . . .

1 Timothy 6:13,17 I charge thee before God who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate, a good confession: . . .

2 Timothy 4:1 I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by his coming and his kingdom:

as.

Genesis 50:16,17 And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died, . . .

1 Chronicles 22:11-13 Now then, my son, the Lord be with thee, and do thou prosper, and build the house to the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken of thee. . . .

1 Chronicles 28:9,20 And thou my son Solomon, know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the thoughts of minds. If thou seek him, thou shalt find him: but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever. . . .

Psalm 34:11 Come, children, hearken to me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Proverbs 1:10,15 If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause: . . .

Proverbs 2:1 That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence.

Proverbs 3:1 For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life, and peace.

Proverbs 4:1-12 I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law. . . .

Proverbs 5:1,2 That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman. . . .

Proverbs 6:1 Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words.

Proverbs 7:1,24 Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye: . . .

Proverbs 31:1-9 The words of king Lamuel. The vision wherewith his mother instructed him. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:14,15 I write not these things to confound you: but I admonish you as my dearest children. . . .

Context
Paul's Ministry
10You are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and without blame we have been to you that have believed: 11As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you (as a father doth his children), 12We testified to every one of you that you would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.…
Cross References
Luke 16:28
That he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torments.

1 Corinthians 4:14
I write not these things to confound you: but I admonish you as my dearest children.

1 Thessalonians 2:7
Whereas we might have been burdensome to you, as the apostles of Christ: but we became little ones in the midst of you, as if a nurse should cherish her children:

1 Thessalonians 4:6
And that no man overreach nor circumvent his brother in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you before and have testified.

1 Thessalonians 5:14
And we beseech you, brethren, rebuke the unquiet: comfort the feeble minded: support the weak: be patient towards all men.

3 John 1:4
I have no greater grace than this, to hear that my children walk in truth.

1 Thessalonians 2:10
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