2 THESSALONIANS 3:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.”
As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good — the exhortation (parakaleo) guards against fatigue ('weary,' kakopatheo, to suffer hardship) in virtue. Perseverance in goodness is the mark of faith unashaken by the idle and the obstinate.
Church Fathers on 2 Thessalonians 3:13
See how immediately the fatherly heart was overcome. He was not able to carry out his reproof farther, but again pitied them. And see with what discretion! He has not said, But pardon them, until they are amended; but what? “But you, be not weary in well doing.” Withdraw yourselves, he says, from them, and reprove them; do not, however, suffer them to perish with hunger. What then, he says, if having abundance from us, he should remain idle? In that case, he says, I have…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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