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1 Thessalonians 2:11

James Moffatt - New Testament

how (as you know) we treated each of you as a father treats his children, beseeching you, encouraging you, and charging you

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I appeal to you, brothers, to bear with this appeal of mine. It is but a short letter.

In the presence of God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels, I adjure you to be unprejudiced in carrying out these orders; be absolutely impartial.

Now in the Lord Jesus Christ we charge and exhort such persons to keep quiet, to do their work and earn their own living.

Encourage one another, therefore, and let each edify the other — as indeed you are doing.

no, we behaved gently when we were among you, like a nursing mother cherishing her own children,

Tell them all this, exhort and reprove, with full authority; let no one slight you.

Tell the young men also to be masters of themselves at all points;

Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, and not to fix their hopes on so uncertain a thing as riches but on the living God who richly provides us with all the enjoyments of life;

In the presence of God who is the Life of all, and of Christ Jesus who testified to the good confession before Pontius Pilate, I charge you

Those who have Christian believers as their masters must not take liberties with them because they are brothers; they must be all the better servants because those who get the good of their service are believers and beloved. This is what you are to teach and preach.

So lay down the following rules, to prevent any reproach being incurred.

Finally, brothers, we beg and beseech you in the Lord Jesus to follow our instructions about the way you are to live so as to satisfy God; you are leading that life, but you are to excel in it still further.

After passing through the districts of Macedonia and encouraging the people at length, he came to Greece,

Tell servants to be submissive to their masters and to give them satisfaction all round, not to be refractory,

Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,

for I have five brothers; let him bear testimony to them, that they may not come to this place of torture as well.'

no one is to defraud or overreach his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all these sins, as we told you already in our solemn protest against them.

We beseech you, brothers, keep a check upon loafers, encourage the faint-hearted, sustain weak souls, never lose your temper with anyone;

I have no greater joy than to hear of my children living in the Truth.

Do you not remember I used to tell you this when I was with you?




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