2 Thessalonians 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.
KJV
εἰ δέ τις οὐχ ὑπακούει τῷ λόγῳ ἡμῶν διὰ τῆς ἐπιστολῆς, τοῦτον σημειοῦσθε, μὴ συναναμίγνυσθε αὐτῷ, ἵνα ἐντραπῇ·
Greek NT
Quod si quis non obedit verbo nostro per epistolam, hunc notate, et ne commisceamini cum illo ut confundatur :
Vulgate
And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
ASV
And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- μὴ — SBLGNT
- μὴ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- καὶ μὴ — Robinson-Pierpont
- συναναμίγνυσθαι — SBLGNT
- συναναμίγνυσθαι — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- συναναμίγνυσθε — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. Wherefore neither with this was He satisfied, but unfolds also the very nature of the war, signifying it to be far more grievous even than a civil war; and He says, I have come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. For not friends only, says He, nor fellow citizens, but even kinsme…
2. Next he adds also the reason why he forbids them not to mix with heathens of that character, implying that it is not only impossible, but also superfluous. 1 Corinthians 5:12-13 For what have I to do with judging them that are without? Calling the Christians and the Greeks, those within and those without, as also he says elsewhere, 1 Timothy 3:7 He must also have a good repo…
2. Does not behave itself unseemly. Nay, why, says he, do I say, she 'is not puffed up,' when she is so far from that feeling, that in suffering the most shameful things for him whom she loves, she does not even count the thing an unseemliness? Again, he did not say, she suffers unseemliness but bears the shame nobly, but, she does not even entertain any sense at all of the sha…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 5:5 — To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
- 1Cor 5:9 — I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
- 1Cor 5:11 — But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one n
- 1Cor 5:11 — But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one n
- 1Thess 4:8 — He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
- 2Cor 2:7 — So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
- 2Cor 7:15 — And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
- 2John 1:10 — If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
- 2Thess 2:15 — Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
- 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.
- 2Tim 3:5 — Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
- Col 4:16 — And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.
- Deut 20:18 — That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
- Eph 5:11 — And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
- Heb 13:17 — Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable
- Jer 6:15 — Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they s
- Jude 1:23 — And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
- Matt 18:17 — And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
- Phil 3:17 — Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
- Prov 5:13 — And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
- Ps 83:16 — Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
- 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 2:8 — Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
- Titus 3:10 — A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
- Titus 3:10 — A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;