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We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
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A Job for the Whole Church
While some commentators see these commands as directed to church leaders, most scholars emphasize that Paul is exhorting the entire congregation. Commentators like Albert Barnes stress that the duties of admonishing, encouraging, and supporting are the shared responsibility of every believer. This makes the spiritual health and discipline of the church a community-wide project, not just a task for the clergy.
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1 Thessalonians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Now we exhort you, brethren. The marginal note says, beseech. This earnest entreaty is evidently addressed to the whole church, a…
Admonish the disorderly (νουθετειτε τους ατακτους). Put sense into the unruly mob who break ranks (α privative and τακτος, verbal …
19th Century
Anglican
Now we exhort you, brethren.—Rather and than now. The writers turn to the presbytery and explain their …
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Baptist
Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly,
There are some who never will be ruled; their very idea of being a Christia…
Paul now begins a new and stronger set of brief commands to all the Christians (“brothers”). “We urge” (GK 4151) is more authoritative than Paul’s …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Now we exhort you, brethren This is said either to the ministers of the word that laboured among them, presided over…
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The ministers of the gospel are described by the work of their office, which is to serve and honor the Lord. It is their duty not only to give good…
13th Century
Catholic
Earlier, he showed them how they should remain subject to their bishops. Here he makes the same point from another point of view. Regarding this, h…
