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1 Thessalonians 2:11

Weymouth NT

For you know that we acted towards every one of you as a father does towards his own children, encouraging and cheering you,

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For I have five brothers. Let him earnestly warn them, lest they also come to this place of torment.'

Passing through those districts he encouraged the disciples in frequent addresses, and then came into Greece, and spent three months there.

Therefore I warn you, and I implore you in the name of the Master, no longer to live as the Gentiles in their perverseness live,

On the contrary, in our relations to you we showed ourselves as gentle as a mother is when she tenderly nurses her own children.

Moreover, brethren, as you learnt from our lips the lives which you ought to live, and do live, so as to please God, we beg and exhort you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live them more and more truly.

and that in this matter there be no encroaching on the rights of a brother Christian and no overreaching him. For the Lord is an avenger in all such cases, as we have already taught you and solemnly warned you.

Therefore encourage one another, and let each one help to strengthen his friend, as in fact you do.

And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the timid, sustain the weak, and be patient towards all.

Do you not remember that while I was still with you I used to tell you all this?

To persons of that sort our injunction –and our command by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ– is that they are to work quietly and eat their own honestly-earned bread.

I solemnly call upon you, in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels, to carry out these instructions of mine without prejudice, and to do nothing from partiality.

Press these facts upon them, so that they may live lives free from reproach.

I charge you –as in the presence of God who gives life to all creatures, and of Christ Jesus who at the bar of Pontius Pilate made a noble profession of faith–

Impress on those who are rich in the present age that they must not be haughty nor set their hopes on riches –that unstable foundation– but on God who provides us richly with all things for our enjoyment.

And those who have believing masters should not be wanting in respect towards them because they are their brethren, but should serve them all the more willingly because those who profit by the faithful service rendered are believers and are friends.

Thus speak, exhort, reprove, with all impressiveness. Let no one make light of your authority.

In the same way exhort the younger men to be discreet,

Exhort slaves to be always obedient to their owners, and to give them satisfaction in everything, not contradicting and not pilfering,

Bear with me, brethren, when I thus exhort you; for, in fact, it is but a short letter that I have written to you.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are living in obedience to the truth.




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