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2 Thessalonians 3:4

New American Bible - revised edition

We are confident of you in the Lord that what we instruct you, you [both] are doing and will continue to do.

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teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”

I myself am convinced about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to admonish one another.

For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to lead the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,

eternal life to those who seek glory, honor, and immortality through perseverance in good works,

If anyone thinks that he is a prophet or a spiritual person, he should recognize that what I am writing to you is a commandment of the Lord.

Circumcision means nothing, and uncircumcision means nothing; what matters is keeping God’s commandments.

And I wrote as I did so that when I came I might not be pained by those in whom I should have rejoiced, confident about all of you that my joy is that of all of you.

For this is why I wrote, to know your proven character, whether you were obedient in everything.

And with them we have sent our brother whom we often tested in many ways and found earnest, but who is now much more earnest because of his great confidence in you.

I am confident of you in the Lord that you will not take a different view, and that the one who is troubling you will bear the condemnation, whoever he may be.

I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work in you will continue to complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.

So then, my beloved, obedient as you have always been, not only when I am present but all the more now when I am absent, work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

Indeed, you do this for all the brothers throughout Macedonia. Nevertheless we urge you, brothers, to progress even more,

Such people we instruct and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and to eat their own food.

We instruct you, brothers, in the name of [our] Lord Jesus Christ, to shun any brother who conducts himself in a disorderly way and not according to the tradition they received from us.

With trust in your compliance I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.




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