2 Thessalonians 3:14
And if any man does not obey our word by this letter, note that man, and do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
13But ye, brothers, do not become weary doing good.
15And yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
Cross References
Numbers 12:14And LORD said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.
Ezra 9:6and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God, for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.
Proverbs 5:13Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!
Jeremiah 6:15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall. At the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, says LORD.
Ezekiel 16:61Then thou shall remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shall receive thy sisters, thine elder [sisters] and thy younger, and I will give them to thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
Zephaniah 3:2She obeyed not the voice. She received not correction. She trusted not in LORD. She did not draw near to her God.
Matthew Henry on 2 Thessalonians 3:7-16
Cautions to the Disorderly. ( a. d. 52.) 6 Now 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. 7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; 8 Neither 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: 9 Not because we have not power, but… Read the whole commentary →