^{10 Ref} ye `are' witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

^{11 Ref} even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

^{12 Ref} for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.