# you have followed my teaching

Paul speaks of giving close attention to these things as if one were physically following them as they moved. Alternate translation: "you have observed my teaching" or "you have paid close attention to my teaching" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])

# my teaching

"what I have taught you to do"

# conduct

the way a person lives his life

# longsuffering

one person being patient with those people who do things of which he does not approve