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2 Thessalonians 3:14

James Moffatt - New Testament

Only, if anyone will not obey our orders in this letter, mark that man, do not associate with him — that will make him feel ashamed!

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After a first and a second warning have no more to do with a factious person;

What I now write is that you are not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral or lustful or idolatrous or given to abuse or drink or robbery. Associate with him! Do not even eat with him!

Brothers, we charge you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to shun any brother who is loafing, instead of following the rule you got from us.

hence, he who disregards this, disregards not man but the God who gave you his holy Spirit.

I send you this letter relying on your obedience; I know you will do even more than I tell you.

I am prepared to court-martial anyone who remains insubordinate, once your submission is complete.

For my aim in writing was simply to test you, to see if you were absolutely obedient.

In my letter I wrote that you were not to associate with the immoral.

Brothers, I beg of you to keep your eye on those who stir up dissensions and put hindrances in your way, contrary to the doctrine which you have been taught. Avoid them.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church; and if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or a taxgatherer.

Obey your leaders, submit to them; for they are alive to the interests of your souls, as men who will have to account for their trust. Let their work be a joy to them and not a grief — which would be a loss to yourselves.

Therefore, my beloved, as you have been obedient always and not simply when I was present, so, now that I am absent, work all the more strenuously at your salvation with reverence and trembling,

His own heart goes out to you all the more when he remembers how you all obeyed him, and how you received him with reverence and trembling.

I do not write this to make you feel ashamed, but to instruct you as beloved children of mine.

And when this letter has been read to you, see that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans; also, see that you read the letter that reaches you from Laodicea.

let your words be sound and such that no exception can be taken to them, so that the opposite side may be confounded by finding nothing that they can say to our discredit.

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not admit him to the house — do not even greet him,




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