KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
2 Thessalonians 3:7–8
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2 Thessalonians 3:7
7For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
7For your selues know how yee ought to follow vs: for wee behaued not our selues disorderly among you,
2 Thessalonians 3:8
8Neither 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:
8Neither did wee eate any mans bread for nought: but wrought with labour and trauaile night and day, that wee might not bee chargeable to any of you.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Thessalonians 3:7
To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Should or is bound to; expresses duty, fitness, or necessity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Conducted or ordered oneself in a stated manner.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The reflexive or emphatic pronoun referring to the speaker together with others.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
disorderly
Without proper order or discipline; irregularly or unruly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
2 Thessalonians 3:8
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)
One, some, or every member or amount of an indefinite number or quantity, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Except; excluding all others or alternatives.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Painful toil or labour, especially the labour and pain of childbirth.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
The period of light between morning and evening; a complete daily cycle; or a specified time, age, or season, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Power or strength; also an auxiliary expressing possibility or permission.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
chargeable
Burdensome, causing expense.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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From verse 7
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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 study9Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
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Open the full verse study16Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
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Open the full verse study1BE ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
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Open the full verse study6And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
7So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
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Open the full verse study17Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
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Open the full verse study7In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
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Open the full verse study12Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
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Open the full verse study9Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
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Open the full verse study10Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
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Open the full verse study3Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
From verse 8
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Open the full verse study11Give us this day our daily bread.
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Open the full verse study9For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
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Open the full verse study3And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
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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 study12And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
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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 study12Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
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Open the full verse study27She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
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Open the full verse study9And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
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Open the full verse study34Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
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