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2 Thessalonians 3:14

Weymouth NT

and if any one refuses to obey these our written instructions, mark that man and hold no communication with him–so that he may be made to feel ashamed.

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If he refuses to hear them, appeal to the Church; and if he refuses to hear even the Church, regard him just as you regard a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.

But I beseech you, brethren, to keep a watch on those who are causing the divisions among you, and are leading others into sin, in defiance of the instruction which you have received; and habitually to shun them.

I am not writing all this to shame you, but I am offering you advice as my dearly-loved children.

But what I meant was that you were not to associate with any one bearing the name of »brother,« if he was addicted to fornication or avarice or idol-worship or abusive language or hard-drinking or greed of gain. With such a man you ought not even to eat.

I wrote to you in that letter that you were not to associate with fornicators;

while we hold ourselves in readiness to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as ever you as a Church have fully shown your obedience.

For in writing to you I have also this object in view–to discover by experience whether you are prepared to be obedient in every respect.

And his strong and tender affection is all the more drawn out towards you when he recalls to mind the obedience which all of you manifested by the timidity and nervous anxiety with which you welcomed him.

Therefore, my dearly-loved friends, as I have always found you obedient, labour earnestly with fear and trembling –not merely as though I were present with you, but much more now since I am absent from you– labour earnestly, I say, to make sure of your own salvation.

And when this Letter has been read among you, let it be read also in the Church of the Laodiceans, and you in turn must read the one I am sending to Laodicea.

Therefore a defiant spirit in such a case provokes not man but God, who puts His Holy Spirit into your hearts.

But, by the authority of the Lord, we command you, brethren, to stand aloof from every brother whose life is disorderly and not in accordance with the teaching which all received from us.

and healthy language which no one can censure, so that our opponents may feel ashamed at having nothing evil to say against us.

After a first and second admonition, have nothing further to do with any one who will not be taught;

I write to you in the full confidence that you will meet my wishes, for I know you will do even more than I say.

Obey your leaders and be submissive to them. For they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will have to give account; that they may do this with joy and not with lamentation. For that would be of no advantage to you.

If any one who comes to you does not bring this teaching, do not receive him under your roof nor bid him Farewell.




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