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2 Thessalonians 3
Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749–1752), the traditional Catholic English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. If you read a modern Bible, this is the same Scripture in older English; some names are spelled differently (Cesarea for Caesarea, Apocalypse for Revelation). About this translation
1 For the rest, brethren, pray for us that the word of God may run and may be glorified, even as among you:
2 And that we may be delivered from importunate and evil men: for all men have not faith.
3 But God is faithful, who will strengthen and keep you from evil.
4 And we have confidence concerning you in the Lord that the things which we command, you both do and will do.
5 And the Lord direct your hearts, in the charity of God and the patience of Christ.
6 And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the tradition which they have received of us. CCC
7 For yourselves know how you ought to imitate us. For we were not disorderly among you. CCC
8 Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nothing: but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you. CCC
9 Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imitate us. CCC
10 For also, when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat. CCC
11 For we have heard there are some among you who walk disorderly: working not at all, but curiously meddling. CCC
12 Now we charge them that are such and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread. CCC
13 But you, brethren, be not weary in well doing. CCC
14 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.
15 Yet do not esteem him as an enemy but admonish him as a brother. Fathers
16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you everlasting peace in every place. The Lord be with you all.
17 The salutation of Paul with my own hand: which is the sign in every epistle. So I write.
18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church
Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va), and where the earliest Church Fathers quote them (Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, public domain). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text.
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- CCC 2830 “Our bread": the Father who gives us life cannot not but give us the nourishment life requires - all appropriate goods and…”
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- CCC 2830 “Our bread": the Father who gives us life cannot not but give us the nourishment life requires - all appropriate goods and…”
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- CCC 2830 “Our bread": the Father who gives us life cannot not but give us the nourishment life requires - all appropriate goods and…”
Read the Catechism
- CCC 2830 “Our bread": the Father who gives us life cannot not but give us the nourishment life requires - all appropriate goods and…”
Read the Catechism
- CCC 2830 “Our bread": the Father who gives us life cannot not but give us the nourishment life requires - all appropriate goods and…”
Read the Catechism
- CCC 2830 “Our bread": the Father who gives us life cannot not but give us the nourishment life requires - all appropriate goods and…”
Read the Catechism
- CCC 2830 “Our bread": the Father who gives us life cannot not but give us the nourishment life requires - all appropriate goods and…”
Read the Fathers
“And be ye then moderate in regard to this matter, and "do not count such as enemies,”
Quoted in Letter to the Philippians, St. Polycarp of Smyrna (early 2nd century), Chapter XI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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