1 Thessalonians 2:11

NIV: For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children,

NAS: just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children,

KJV: As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

GWT: You know very well that we treated each of you the way a father treats his children. We comforted you and encouraged you. Yet, we insisted that

ASV: as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you , and testifying,

BBE: Even as you saw how, like a father with his children, we were teaching and comforting you all, and giving witness,

DBY: as ye know how, as a father his own children, we used to exhort each one of you, and comfort and testify,

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

WBS: As ye know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

WEB: As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

YLT: even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,