1 THESSALONIANS 5:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.”
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all — a fourfold exhortation addresses different spiritual conditions. The 'idle' (ataktos) need correction; the 'fainthearted' (oligopsychos) need encouragement; the 'weak' (asthenes) need support; all require patience (makrothymia). The community is a healing organism.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 5:14
Here he addresses those who have rule. Admonish, he says, “the disorderly,” not of imperiousness, he says, nor of self-will rebuke them, but with admonition. “Encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.” For he who is rebuked with harshness, despairing of himself, becomes more bold in contempt. On this account it is necessary by admonition to render the medicine sweet. But who are the disorderly? All those who do what is contrary to the will of…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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