These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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2 Thessalonians 3
Brit Hadashah 18 verses
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Finally, brethren, pray for us, asking that the Lord’s Message may be spread rapidly and its be displayed, as it was displayed among you;
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1 Thessalonians 5:25 Ephesians 6:19-20 Colossians 4:3 1 Thessalonians 1:8 Acts 19:20 Hebrews 13:18-19 2 Corinthians 1:11 Luke 10:2 1 Thessalonians 2:13 1 Thessalonians 2:1 Acts 12:24 Romans 15:30 Acts 6:7 Psalm 138:2 1 Thessalonians 1:5 Matthew 9:38 1 Thessalonians 4:1 1 Corinthians 16:9 2 Timothy 2:9 Acts 13:48-49 1 Thessalonians 5:17 - 2 and that we may be delivered from wrong-headed and wicked men; for it is not everybody who has .
- 3 But the Lord is faithful, and He will make you stedfast and will guard you from the Evil one.
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And we have confidence in the Lord in regard to you that you are doing, and will do, what we command.
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2 Corinthians 2:3 1 Thessalonians 4:10 Philippians 2:12 Philemon 1:21 2 Thessalonians 3:6 2 Thessalonians 3:12 1 Thessalonians 4:1-2 Galatians 5:10 Romans 15:18 1 Corinthians 14:37 Romans 2:7 Romans 15:14 Matthew 28:20 Philippians 1:6 2 Corinthians 2:9 1 Corinthians 7:19 2 Corinthians 8:22 2 Corinthians 7:15-16 -
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And may the Lord guide your hearts into the of and into the patience of .
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1 Chronicles 29:18 Psalm 130:5-6 2 Timothy 4:8 Lamentations 3:26 Psalm 119:36 Psalm 119:5 Proverbs 3:6 Jeremiah 10:23 1 John 4:19 Hebrews 12:2-3 Romans 8:28 1 Thessalonians 1:3 Jeremiah 31:33 Psalm 40:1 Romans 8:25 1 Corinthians 8:3 1 Kings 8:58 1 Thessalonians 1:10 James 1:16-18 Galatians 5:22 Luke 12:36-37 Romans 5:5 Deuteronomy 30:6 Titus 2:13 1 Peter 4:1 Revelation 3:10-11 1 Thessalonians 3:11 Hebrews 9:28 2 Peter 3:12 Revelation 13:10 Philippians 3:20-21 James 2:5 -
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But, by the authority of the Lord, we command you, brethren, to stand aloof from every brother whose life is disorderly and not in accordance with the teaching which all received from us.
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1 Corinthians 5:4 1 Thessalonians 5:14 2 Thessalonians 2:15 Romans 16:17 1 Thessalonians 4:11 Hebrews 12:15-16 1 Corinthians 5:11-13 2 Corinthians 2:10 2 Timothy 3:5 Matthew 18:17 1 Thessalonians 4:1 2 Thessalonians 3:14-15 2 Thessalonians 3:7 Colossians 3:17 1 Corinthians 11:2 2 Thessalonians 3:10-11 Ephesians 4:17 1 Timothy 5:21 1 Timothy 6:5 2 Timothy 4:1 3 John 1:10-11 1 Timothy 6:13-14 - 7 For you yourselves that it is your duty to follow our example. There was no disorder in our lives among you,
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This was not because we had not a claim upon you, but it arose from a desire to set you an example—for you to imitate us.
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- 10 For even when we were with you, we laid down this rule for you: “If a man does not choose to work, neither shall he eat.”
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For we that there are some of you who live disorderly lives and are mere idle busybodies.
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- 12 To persons of that sort our injunction—and our command by the authority of the Lord the —is that they are to work quietly and eat their own honestly-earned bread.
- 13 But you, brethren, must not grow weary in the path of duty;
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and if any one refuses to obey these our written instructions, mark that man and hold no communication with him—so that he may be made to feel ashamed.
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2 Thessalonians 3:6 Titus 3:10 1 Corinthians 5:11 Psalm 83:16 Matthew 18:17 1 Corinthians 5:9 Proverbs 5:13 2 Corinthians 10:6 Philemon 1:21 2 Corinthians 2:9 Hebrews 13:17 Deuteronomy 16:12 Ezekiel 16:61-63 2 Corinthians 7:15 Luke 15:18-21 Romans 16:17 Ezra 9:6 Jeremiah 6:15 Ezekiel 36:31-32 Zephaniah 3:2 Jeremiah 31:18-20 Numbers 12:14 1 Thessalonians 4:8 Philippians 2:12 Jeremiah 3:3 - 15 And yet do not regard him as an enemy, but caution him as a brother.
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And may the Lord of Himself continually grant you in every sense. The Lord be with you all.
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Romans 15:33 Ruth 2:4 Isaiah 26:12 Numbers 6:26 Isaiah 8:10 2 Timothy 4:22 Isaiah 9:6-7 Luke 2:14 Matthew 28:20 Psalm 46:7 Psalm 29:11 John 16:33 Matthew 1:23 Isaiah 54:10 Zechariah 6:13 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Isaiah 66:12 2 Corinthians 13:11 John 14:27 Philippians 4:7-9 Romans 16:20 Isaiah 45:7 Psalm 72:3 1 Corinthians 14:33 Psalm 46:11 1 Samuel 17:37 Ephesians 2:14-17 Romans 1:7 2 Thessalonians 3:18 Judges 6:24 Hebrews 7:2 Haggai 2:9 Psalm 85:8-10 Hebrews 13:20 Psalm 72:7 Philemon 1:25 1 Samuel 20:13 2 Corinthians 5:19-21 -
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I add the greeting with my own hand, which is the credential in every letter of mine.
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This is my handwriting. May the of our Lord the be with you all.
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