as you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father does his own children,
1 Thessalonians 2:11
Surrounding context
2:10 You are witnesses, and God also, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you who believe;
2:11 as you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father does his own children,
2:12 that you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.