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2 Thessalonians 3:4

James Moffatt - New Testament

Now, we rely on you in the Lord, confident that you do and will do what we enjoin.

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as indeed is your practice towards all the brothers throughout all Macedonia. We beseech you, brothers, to excel in this more and more;

of this I am confident, that he who has begun the good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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

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,

So the very reason I wrote was that I might not come only to be pained by those who ought to give me joy; I relied on you all, I felt sure that my joy would be a joy for everyone of you.

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

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.

and teach them to obey all the commands I have laid on you. And I will be with you all the time, to the very end of the world."

I feel persuaded in the Lord that you will not go wrong. But he who unsettles you will have to meet his doom, no matter who he is.

Along with them I am also sending our brother: I have had ample proof of his keen interest on many occasions, and it is specially keen on this occasion, as he has absolute confidence in you.

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

If anyone considers himself a prophet or gifted with the Spirit, let him understand that what I write to you is a command of the Lord.

Circumcision counts for nothing, uncircumcision counts for nothing; obedience to God's commands is everything.

I will not make free to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished by me in the way of securing the obedience of the Gentiles, by my words and by my deeds,

Personally I am quite certain, my brothers, that even as it is you have ample goodness of heart, you are filled with knowledge of every kind, and you are well able to give advice to one another.

eternal life to those who by patiently doing good aim at glory, honour, and immortality,




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