² While there, he encouraged the believers in all the towns he passed through. Then he traveled down to Greece,

Live to Please God

4 Finally, dear brothers and sisters,^[a] we urge you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live in a way that pleases God, as we have taught you. You live this way already, and we encourage you to do so even more.

³ So you can see we were not preaching with any deceit or impure motives or trickery.

²⁸ So we tell others about Christ, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all the wisdom God has given us. We want to present them to God, perfect^[a] in their relationship to Christ.

¹¹ And you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children.

¹¹ Then they all went back upstairs, shared in the Lord’s Supper,^[a] and ate together. Paul continued talking to them until dawn, and then he left.

⁶ After the Passover^[a] ended, we boarded a ship at Philippi in Macedonia and five days later joined them in Troas, where we stayed a week.

Paul’s Final Visit to Troas

⁷ On the first day of the week, we gathered with the local believers to share in the Lord’s Supper.^[b] Paul was preaching to them, and since he was leaving the next day, he kept talking until midnight.

Paul and Silas in Berea

¹⁰ That very night the believers sent Paul and Silas to Berea. When they arrived there, they went to the Jewish synagogue.

Paul Preaches in Thessalonica

17 Paul and Silas then traveled through the towns of Amphipolis and Apollonia and came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

¹² From there we reached Philippi, a major city of that district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. And we stayed there several days.