1 Finalmente, hermanos, les suplico que oren por nosotros. Pidan que el mensaje del Señor se propague rápidamente y que sea recibido y apreciado, como sucedió entre ustedes. 2 Y oren para que seamos librados de personas perversas y malvadas, pues no todos tienen fe. 3 El Señor, que es fiel, les dará fortaleza y los guardará del maligno. 4 Confiamos en el Señor que ustedes estén poniendo en práctica nuestras enseñanzas, y que siempre lo harán. 5 Que el Señor los lleve a amar como Dios lo hace y a ser pacientes como Cristo. 6 Hermanos, un mandamiento les doy en nombre del Señor Jesucristo: Apártense de cualquier hermano que ande con holgazanerías y que no siga las enseñanzas que ustedes recibieron de nosotros. 7 Ustedes saben bien que deben seguir nuestro ejemplo, y a nosotros jamás nos vieron sin hacer nada. 8 Cuando queríamos comida la comprábamos; con fatiga y cansancio trabajábamos día y noche, para no ser una carga a ninguno de ustedes. 9 Y no se trataba de que no tuviéramos el derecho de solicitar el sustento, sino de que queríamos enseñarles con el ejemplo. 10 Estando aún entre ustedes, pusimos una regla: «El que no trabaja, que tampoco coma». 11 Sin embargo, nos hemos enterado de que algunos de ustedes no trabajan y se pasan la vida sin hacer nada. 12 En el nombre del Señor Jesucristo, les ordenamos a dichas personas que se pongan a trabajar tranquilamente para ganarse la vida. 13 Hermanos, nunca se cansen de hacer el bien. 14 Si alguien se niega a obedecer lo que decimos en esta carta, señálenlo delante de todos y no se junten con él, para que se avergüence. 15 Pero no lo tengan como a un enemigo, sino repréndanlo como a un hermano. 16 Que el Señor de paz les dé paz en todo tiempo y en cualquier circunstancia. El Señor esté con ustedes. 17 Y aquí va el saludo que en todas mis cartas acostumbro escribir yo mismo para que se sepa que es una carta mía. Yo, Pablo. Esto es de mi puño y letra: 18 Que nuestro Señor Jesucristo derrame su amor sobre todos ustedes.
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Cross references (18)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Thessalonians 5:25; Colossians 4:3; 1 Corinthians 16:9; Ephesians 6:19–20; Acts 19:20
- 2 2 Corinthians 4:3–4; Romans 15:31; Deuteronomy 32:20; Romans 10:16; Luke 18:8
- 3 2 Timothy 4:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:24; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Psalm 121:7; 1 Corinthians 1:9
- 4 Philippians 1:6; Philemon 21; 1 Thessalonians 4:10; 2 Corinthians 2:3; Philippians 2:12
- 5 Psalm 119:36; 1 Chronicles 29:18; Deuteronomy 30:6; 1 John 4:19; Hebrews 12:2–3
- 6 2 Thessalonians 3:10–11; 2 Thessalonians 3:7; Colossians 3:17; Romans 16:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:14
- 7 2 Thessalonians 3:6; 2 Thessalonians 3:9; 1 Corinthians 4:16; 1 Corinthians 11:1; Titus 2:7
- 8 Matthew 6:11; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; Ephesians 4:28; Acts 18:3; 1 Corinthians 4:12
- 9 2 Thessalonians 3:7; 1 Corinthians 9:4–14; 1 Thessalonians 2:6; Galatians 6:6; John 13:15
- 10 Genesis 3:19; 1 Thessalonians 4:11; Proverbs 13:4; Proverbs 20:4; Proverbs 21:25
- 11 1 Timothy 5:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:11; 2 Thessalonians 3:6; 1 Peter 4:15
- 12 Ephesians 4:28; 1 Thessalonians 4:11; 2 Thessalonians 3:8; Luke 11:3; Proverbs 17:1
- 13 Galatians 6:9–10; Hebrews 12:3; 2 Corinthians 4:1; 2 Corinthians 4:16; Isaiah 40:29–31
- 14 Titus 3:10; 2 Thessalonians 3:6; 1 Corinthians 5:11; Psalm 83:16; 1 Thessalonians 4:8
- 15 Titus 3:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; 1 Corinthians 5:5; 1 Corinthians 4:14; Galatians 6:1
- 16 Psalm 29:11; John 16:33; Matthew 1:23; John 14:27; Romans 15:33
- 17 1 Corinthians 16:21; Colossians 4:18; 2 Thessalonians 1:5; Joshua 2:12; 1 Samuel 17:18
- 18 Romans 16:20; Romans 16:23
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What the Fathers said
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Neither ought we, having committed everything to the prayers of the Saints, to be idle ourselves, and run into wickedness, and to lay hold of nothing; nor again when working good to despise that succor. For great indeed are the things which prayer for us can effect, but it is when we ourselves also work.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 13 (1889)
Since Paul also, having made infinite complaints, and said, "If any will not work, neither let him eat," stopped not at this, but added, "But ye, be not weary in well doing." "Nay, but these things are contradictory.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
We have learnt from the Apostle, "the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patient waiting for Christ" for our tribulations.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
But although Paul saith, "If any will not work, neither let him eat," to them he saith it; but to us he saith not this, but, on the contrary, "Be not weary in well doing." Even thus do we at home; when any two are striving with each other, we take each apart, and give them the opposite advice.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
if where they are strangers they shine so bright, how great will they become when they shall have won their native land!" Thus they too will be reformed, and the word of godliness "will have free course," not less than in the apostles' times.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)