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1 Thessalonians 2:11

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You know that we treated each of you the way a father treats his own children.

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I ask you, brothers and sisters, to listen carefully to the challenges and encouragement that I’ve offered you briefly.

I command you in the sight of God and Christ Jesus and the chosen angels to follow these instructions. Treat everyone the same and don’t favor one person over another.

In the Lord Jesus Christ, we command and urge people like that to settle down and earn their own living.

So encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.

Instead, we were like young children when we were with you. We cared for you the way a mother feeds and cares for her little children.

These are the things you should teach. Encourage and correct people with full authority. Don’t let anyone despise you.

In the same way, encourage the young men to control themselves.

Command people who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to put their hope in riches, which are so uncertain. Tell them to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and in the sight of Christ Jesus, who told the truth when he was a witness in front of Pontius Pilate, I give you a command.

Slaves whose masters are believers shouldn’t treat them with less respect just because the masters are believers. Instead, they should serve them even better. They should love their masters because they’re believers too and because they’re committed to caring for them. These are the things you are to teach and insist on.

Give these instructions to the people so that no one will do the wrong thing.

Now I want to talk about some other matters, brothers and sisters. We taught you how to live in a way that pleases God, and that’s how you’re living. But in the name of the Lord Jesus, we ask you and urge you to do that more and more.

He traveled through that area, speaking many words of hope to the people. He arrived in Greece,

Teach slaves to do everything their masters tell them to do. Tell them to please their masters and not talk back to them.

So let me tell you—and I’m speaking for the Lord as I warn you: You must not live the way the Gentiles do any longer. They’re not able to think things through correctly.

I have five brothers. Let Lazarus warn them so that they won’t come to this place of terrible suffering.’

None of you should sin against your brother or sister by doing that. You shouldn’t take advantage of your brother or sister. The Lord will punish everyone who commits sins like those. We’ve already told you and warned you about that.

And we urge you, brothers and sisters, to warn certain people who don’t want to work and who are being disruptive. Encourage those who have lost hope, help those who are weak, and be patient with everyone.

Nothing makes me happier than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

Don’t you remember that when I was with you, I used to tell you these things?




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