2 Thessalonians 2:15
Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
KJV
ἄρα οὖν, ἀδελφοί, στήκετε, καὶ κρατεῖτε τὰς παραδόσεις ἃς ἐδιδάχθητε εἴτε διὰ λόγου εἴτε δι’ ἐπιστολῆς ἡμῶν.
Greek NT
Itaque fratres, state : et tenete traditiones, quas didicistis, sive per sermonem, sive per epistolam nostram.
Vulgate
So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye were taught, whether by word, or by epistle of ours.
ASV
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope in grace,
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
διδάσκω
didasko
verb · 97×
εἴτε
eite
conjunction · 65×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κρατέω
krateo
verb · 47×
λόγος
logos
noun · 330×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
παράδοσις
paradosis
noun · 13×
στήκω
steko
verb · 12×
ἀδελφός
adelphos
noun · 343×
ἄρα
ara
particle · 36×
ἐπιστολή
epistole
noun · 24×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
If anyone receives not as sacred and canonical the said books entire with all their parts, as they have been used to be read in the Catholic Church, and as they are contained in the old Latin Vulgate edition; and knowingly and deliberately contemns the traditions aforesaid: let him be anathema.
God graciously arranged that the things He had once revealed for the salvation of all peoples should remain in their entirety, throughout the ages, and be transmitted to all generations. Hence, there exists a close connection and communication between sacred tradition and Sacred Scripture. For both of them, flowing from the same divine wellspring, in a certain way merge into a …
But since some find fault with us for worshipping and honouring the image of our Saviour and that of our Lady, and those, too, of the rest of the saints and servants of Christ, let them remember that in the beginning God created man after His own image. Genesis 1:26 On what grounds, then, do we show reverence to each other unless because we are made after God's image? For as Ba…
Basil argues that some elements of the faith were handed down in unwritten tradition alongside Scripture. The apostle Paul commends the Thessalonians for holding fast to traditions received by word of mouth as well as by letter. The doxological practices of the church, including the worship of the Spirit, rest on this apostolic tradition.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 11:2 — Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
- 1Cor 11:2 — Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
- 1Cor 15:2 — By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
- 1Cor 15:58 — Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
- 1Cor 16:13 — Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
- 1Cor 16:13 — Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
- 1Thess 5:21 — Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
- 1Tim 6:20 — O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
- 2Thess 2:2 — That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
- 2Thess 2:2 — That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
- 2Thess 3:6 — 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.
- 2Thess 3:6 — 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.
- 2Thess 3:14 — 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.
- Gal 5:1 — Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
- Phil 4:1 — Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
- Phil 4:1 — Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
- Rom 16:17 — Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
- Titus 1:9 — Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.