"But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing. {be...: or, faint not}" — 2 Thessalonians 3:13

2 Thessalonians 3:13 · KJV

“But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing. {be...: or, faint not}”

— 2 Thessalonians 3:13

Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

Verse 14

And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. {by...: or, signify that man by an epistle}

2 Thessalonians 3 — Context

For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.

Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing. {be...: or, faint not}

And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. {by...: or, signify that man by an epistle}

Yet count {him} not as an enemy, but admonish {him} as a brother.

Cross References

Galatians 6:9-10

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Hebrews 12:3

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

2 Corinthians 4:16

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward {man} is renewed day by day.

Isaiah 40:29-31

He giveth power to the faint; and to {them that have} no might he increaseth strength.

Luke 18:1

And he spake a parable unto them {to this end}, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

Revelation 2:3

And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

Psalms 27:13

{I had fainted}, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.