² Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

¹⁵ So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.

¹⁷ Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

⁶ Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

² by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.

²² What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.

¹⁷ But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.

¹ 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.

² For you know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

⁶ But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you;

¹⁷ Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

⁶ They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

²⁸ Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

²⁹ "Many women do noble things, But you excel them all."

³⁰ Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; But a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

³¹ Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!