2 Thessalonians 3:6

I summon you, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to shun any brother who leads an idle and disorderly life, which is not according to the rule you received from me.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5May the Lord incline your hearts to the love of God and to the stedfastness of Christ.

7For you know well how you must imitate me. For I did not lead an idle or disorderly life among you;

Read all of 2 Thessalonians 3

Cross References

Matthew 18:17"but if he will not heed the church, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.

1 Corinthians 5:4When you are gathered together, and my spirit is with you together with the power of our Lord Jesus,

1 Corinthians 11:2Indeed I praise you for remembering me in everything, and because you are holding fast to the traditions just as you received them.

Ephesians 4:17This then I tell you and implore you in the Master’s name, to pass your lives no longer as the Gentiles do in the perverseness of their minds;

1 Thessalonians 4:1Finally then, my brothers, I continue to beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you learned of me how to walk so as to please God - and you are actually doing so - that you abound in it yet more and more.

1 Thessalonians 5:14And, brothers, we urge you to admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, sustain the weak, lose patience with none.

Matthew Henry on 2 Thessalonians 3:2-6

The Apostle's Pious Request. ( a. d. 52.) 1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. 4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you. 5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study 2 Thessalonians 3:6