2 Thessalonians 2:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Matt 16:9 : 9 Do ye not yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Mark 8:18 : 18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?
Luke 24:6-7 : 6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, 7 saying that the Son of man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
John 16:4 : 4 But these things have I spoken unto you, that when their hour is come, ye may remember them, how that I told you. And these things I said not unto you from the beginning, because I was with you.
Acts 20:31 : 31 Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.
Gal 5:21 : 21 envyings, {G5408} drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did {G2532} forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Thess 2:11 : 11 as ye know how we [dealt with] each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging [you], and testifying,
2 Thess 3:10 : 10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, {G3754} If any will not work, neither let him eat.
2 Pet 1:15 : 15 Yea, I will give diligence that at every time ye may be able after my decease to call these things to remembrance.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

2 Thess 2:1-4
4 verses
76%
1Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him;
2to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand;
3let no man beguile you in any wise: for [it will not be,] except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,
4he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he {G5613} {G2316} sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.
2 Thess 2:6
75%
6And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.
2 Pet 1:12-16
5 verses
75%
12Wherefore I shall be {G3756} ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with [you].
13And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
14knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle cometh swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ signified unto me.
15Yea, I will give diligence that at every time ye may be able after my decease to call these things to remembrance.
16For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2 Pet 3:1-2
2 verses
72%
1This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in remembrance;
2that ye should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles:
John 14:25
72%
25These things have I spoken unto you, while [yet] abiding with you.
1 Cor 11:2
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2Now I praise you {G80} that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
John 16:4
72%
4But these things have I spoken unto you, that when their hour is come, ye may remember them, how that I told you. And these things I said not unto you from the beginning, because I was with you.
2 Cor 13:2
72%
2I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, to them that have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that, if I come {G1519} again, I will not spare;
Jude 1:17
71%
17But ye, beloved, remember ye the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
1 Thess 3:4-5
2 verses
71%
4For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know.
5For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.
1 Tim 1:3
70%
3As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
1 Thess 5:1-2
2 verses
69%
1But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written unto you.
2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
2 Cor 11:5
69%
5For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
1 Cor 2:3
69%
3And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
1 Cor 12:2
69%
2Ye know that when ye were Gentiles [ye were] led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever {G302} ye might led.
1 Cor 3:16
69%
16Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
2 Tim 1:6
69%
6For which cause I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee through the laying on of my hands.
Col 2:4-5
2 verses
69%
4{G1161} This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
5For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
1 Cor 4:17
68%
17For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.
1 John 2:26
68%
26These things have I written unto you concerning them that would lead you astray.
2 Tim 2:14
68%
14Of these things put them in remembrance, charging [them] in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.
Rev 2:5
68%
5Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I come to thee, {G5035} and will move thy candlestick out of its place, except thou repent.
Acts 20:31
68%
31Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.
2 Thess 2:9
68%
9[None even he], whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2 Pet 3:17
68%
17Ye therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness.
1 Thess 2:1
68%
1For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it hath not been found vain:
1 Thess 1:5
68%
5how that our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and [in] much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we showed ourselves toward you for your sake.
1 Thess 4:2
68%
2For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
1 Cor 2:1
68%
1And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
1 Cor 4:6
67%
6Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.
2 Cor 2:9
67%
9For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.
2 Cor 1:23
67%
23But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.
2 Thess 2:15
67%
15So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye were taught, whether by word, or by epistle of ours.
1 Tim 4:6
67%
6If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed [until now]:
1 Thess 2:10
67%
10Ye are witnesses, and God [also], how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe:
1 Cor 5:2
67%
2And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.
Eph 2:2
67%
2wherein {G1722} ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
2 Tim 2:7
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7Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give thee understanding in all things.
2 Cor 10:2
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2yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.