1 Thessalonians 2:11 lacks a verb in Greek, making the sentence incomplete from a strict grammatical point of view. The deficiencies in syntax can probably be explained by the quickness with which Paul’s train of thought proceeds from each of you
at the beginning of 1 Thessalonians 2:11, to the father...with his own children
to the exhortation of 1 Thessalonians 2:12. We should understand these thoughts as parts of one multifaceted idea: Paul had exhorted and admonished each one of the Thessalonian believers like a father with his own children.
11 For you know how, like a father with his children,