² He traveled through that area, speaking many words of encouragement to the people, and finally arrived in Greece,

Living to Please God

4 As for other matters, brothers and sisters,^(A) we instructed you how to live^(B) in order to please God,^(C) as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more.

³ For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives,^(A) nor are we trying to trick you.^(B)

²⁸ He is the one we proclaim, admonishing^(A) and teaching everyone with all wisdom,^(B) so that we may present everyone fully mature^(C) in Christ.

¹¹ For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children,^(A)

¹¹ Then he went upstairs again and broke bread^(A) and ate. After talking until daylight, he left.

⁶ But we sailed from Philippi^(A) after the Festival of Unleavened Bread, and five days later joined the others at Troas,^(B) where we stayed seven days.

Eutychus Raised From the Dead at Troas

⁷ On the first day of the week^(C) we came together to break bread.^(D) Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.

In Berea

¹⁰ As soon as it was night, the believers sent Paul and Silas^(A) away to Berea.^(B) On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue.^(C)

In Thessalonica

17 When Paul and his companions had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica,^(A) where there was a Jewish synagogue.

¹² From there we traveled to Philippi,^(A) a Roman colony and the leading city of that district^[a] of Macedonia.^(B) And we stayed there several days.