KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
2 Thessalonians 3:11–13
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2 Thessalonians 3:11
11For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
11For we heare that there are some which walke among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busi-bodies.
2 Thessalonians 3:12
12Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
12Now them that are such, we command, and exhort by our Lord Iesus Christ, that with quietnesse they worke, and eat their owne bread.
2 Thessalonians 3:13
13But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
13But ye, brethren, ‖be not wearie in well doing.
- Or, faint not.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Thessalonians 3:11
To perceive by the ear; to listen, attend, understand, or obey, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
disorderly
Without proper order or discipline; irregularly or unruly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
2 Thessalonians 3:12
Of the kind, degree, or character already named or indicated.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To order or direct with authority; also, an authoritative order, charge, or commandment.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments to a good deed or to any laudable conduct or course of action. To advise; to warn; to caution.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A title of authority applied here to God, Christ, or a male master or ruler, according to the verse.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
The Anointed One.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
A state of rest; stillness.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Labor, activity, deed, operation, or a result produced; as a verb, to labor, act, make, produce, or bring about.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
DEFINED WORDS
2 Thessalonians 3:13
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Brothers; near kindred; fellow Israelites; or fellow believers, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To reduce or exhaust the physical strength of the body; to tire; to fatigue.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
In a good, right, or healthy manner or condition; also a deep source of water, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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From verse 11
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Open the full verse study13And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
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Open the full verse study11And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
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Open the full verse study6Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
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Open the full verse study15But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.
From verse 12
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Open the full verse study28Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
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Open the full verse study11And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
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Open the full verse study8Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
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Open the full verse study6Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
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Open the full verse study3Give us day by day our daily bread.
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Open the full verse study1BETTER is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
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Open the full verse study1FURTHERMORE then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
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Open the full verse study14¶ Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
15And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
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Open the full verse study2For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
From verse 13
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Open the full verse study9And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
10As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
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Open the full verse study3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
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Open the full verse study1THEREFORE seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
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Open the full verse study16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
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Open the full verse study29He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
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Open the full verse study1AND he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
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Open the full verse study1FURTHERMORE then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
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Open the full verse study5And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
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Open the full verse study13I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
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Open the full verse study3And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
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Open the full verse study16In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.
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Open the full verse study8And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart faint as well as his heart.
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Open the full verse study13Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the Lord of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the Lord.
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Open the full verse study9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
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Open the full verse study7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
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Open the full verse study28And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
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