² And I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances ye keep,

¹⁵ so, then, brethren, stand ye fast, and hold the deliverances that ye were taught, whether through word, whether through our letter;

¹⁷ because of this I sent to you Timotheus, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways in Christ, according as everywhere in every assembly I teach.

⁶ And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

² through which also ye are being saved, in what words I proclaimed good news to you, if ye hold fast, except ye did believe in vain,

²² why, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or the assembly of God do ye despise, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!

¹⁷ And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together;

¹ As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

² for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

⁶ And now Timotheus having come unto us from you, and having declared good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us always, desiring much to see us, as we also `to see' you,

¹⁷ if not, as God did distribute to each, as the Lord hath called each -- so let him walk; and thus in all the assemblies do I direct:

⁶ and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,

²⁸ Her sons have risen up, and pronounce her happy, Her husband, and he praiseth her,

²⁹ `Many `are' the daughters who have done worthily, Thou hast gone up above them all.'

³⁰ The grace `is' false, and the beauty `is' vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.

³¹ Give ye to her of the fruit of her hands, And her works do praise her in the gates!