“Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more” (1 Thessalonians 4:1).

Those folks learned from Paul how to live to God’s pleasure.

A lot they learned from his oral and written teaching.

I expect they also learned a bunch by observing how he lived.

In fact, to the Philippians he wrote:

“Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you” (4:9).

Likewise, others receive from me how to live to God’s pleasure.

Or do they?