2 Thessalonians 3:6

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.

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.’”

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

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.

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

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.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

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

But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

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

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

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.

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.

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

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

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

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;

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

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

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.

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,

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.

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

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.

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

All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. His dwelling shall be outside of the camp.

You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”

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

When Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.

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?”

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

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.

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,