2 Thessalonians 3:11

He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.

and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.

for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.

If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.

For Yahweh spoke this to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you,

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.

So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,