2 Thessalonians 3:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they received of us.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Παραγγέλλομεν δὲ ὑμῖν, ἀδελφοί, ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, στέλλεσθαι ὑμᾶς ἀπὸ παντὸς ἀδελφοῦ ἀτάκτως περιπατοῦντος, καὶ μὴ κατὰ τὴν παράδοσιν ἣν παρέλαβε παρʼ ἡμῶν.

Transliteration

Parangellomen de you, adelphoi, en onomati tou Kyriou our Iēsou Christou, stellesthai you apo pantos adelphou ataktōs peripatountos, kai mē kata tēn paradosin hēn parelabe par' us.

Grammar Details

• *Parangellomen*: present indicative, active, 1st plural - we command/instruct
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - and/but/now
• *adelphoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - brothers
• *en onomati*: preposition + dative - in the name
• *tou Kyriou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of the Lord
• *Iēsou Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - Jesus Christ
• *stellesthai*: present infinitive, middle - to withdraw/keep away
• *apo*: preposition + genitive - from
• *pantos*: genitive, masculine, singular - every
• *adelphou*: genitive, masculine, singular - brother
• *ataktōs*: adverb - disorderly/unruly/idle
• *peripatountos*: present participle, active, genitive, masculine, singular - walking/living
• *kata*: preposition + accusative - according to
• *tēn paradosin*: accusative, feminine, singular - the tradition/teaching
• *hēn*: accusative, feminine, singular, relative pronoun - which
• *parelabe*: aorist indicative, active, 3rd singular - he received
• *par'*: preposition (*para*) + genitive - from

Word Meanings

• *Parangellomen*: we command/we instruct/we charge
• *onomati*: name/authority
• *stellesthai*: to withdraw/to keep away/to avoid
• *ataktōs*: disorderly/unruly/idle/irresponsibly
• *peripatountos*: walking/living/conducting oneself
• *paradosin*: tradition/teaching/instruction

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 5:4 : 4 in the name of our Lord Jesus, {G5547} {G4863} ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord {G5547} Jesus,
• 1 Thess 5:14 : 14 And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.
• 2 Thess 2:15 : 15 So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye were taught, whether by word, or by epistle of ours.
• Rom 16:17 : 17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them.
• Matt 18:17 : 17 And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church: and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto you as the Gentile and the tax collector.
• 2 Tim 3:5 : 5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away.
• Heb 12:15-16 : 15 looking carefully lest [there be] any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby {G1223} the many be defiled; 16 lest [there] [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.
• 2 Thess 3:7 : 7 For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
• 2 Thess 3:10-11 : 10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, {G3754} If any will not work, neither let him eat. 11 For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work not at all, but are busybodies.
• 2 Thess 3:14-15 : 14 And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed. 15 And [yet] count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
• 1 Cor 5:11-13 : 11 but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat. 12 For what have I to do with judging them {G2532} that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within? 13 But them that are without God judgeth. {G2532} Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.
• 1 Cor 11:2 : 2 Now I praise you {G80} that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
• 2 Cor 2:10 : 10 But to whom ye forgive anything, I [forgive] also: for {G1063} what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes {G5209} [have I] [forgiven it] in the presence of Christ;
• Eph 4:17 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the {G3062} Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,
• Col 3:17 : 17 And {G3748} whatsoever ye do, {G4160} in word or in deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
• 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk, — that ye abound more and more.
• 1 Thess 4:11 : 11 and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your {G2398} hands, even as we charged you;
• 1 Tim 5:21 : 21 I charge [thee] in the sight of God, and {G2962} Christ Jesus, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
• 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.
• 1 Tim 6:13-14 : 13 I {G3853} charge thee in the sight of God, who giveth life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed the good confession; 14 that thou keep the commandment, without spot, without reproach, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
• 3 John 1:10-11 : 10 Therefore, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his works which he doeth, prating against us with wicked words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and them that would he forbiddeth and casteth [them] out of the church. 11 Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: {G1161} he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
• 2 Tim 4:1 : 1 I charge [thee] in the sight of God, and of {G2962} Christ Jesus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: