2 Thessalonians 3:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for yourselves have known how it behoveth `you' to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you;

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 4:16 : 16 I call upon you, therefore, become ye followers of me;
  • 1 Cor 11:1 : 1 Followers of me become ye, as I also `am' of Christ.
  • 2 Thess 3:9 : 9 not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;
  • 1 Tim 4:12 : 12 let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;
  • Titus 2:7 : 7 concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,
  • 1 Pet 5:3 : 3 neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,
  • Phil 3:17 : 17 become followers together of me, brethren, and observe those thus walking, according as ye have us -- a pattern;
  • Phil 4:9 : 9 the things that also ye did learn, and receive, and hear, and saw in me, those do, and the God of the peace shall be with you.
  • 1 Thess 1:6-7 : 6 and ye -- ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit, 7 so that ye became patterns to all those believing in Macedonia and Achaia,
  • 1 Thess 2:10 : 10 ye `are' witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,
  • 2 Thess 3:6 : 6 And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

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  • 2 Thess 3:4-6
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    4and we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that the things that we command you ye both do and will do;

    5and the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.

    6And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

  • 2 Thess 3:8-14
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    8nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;

    9not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

    10for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

    11for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,

    12and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;

    13and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,

    14and if any one do not obey our word through the letter, this one note ye, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed,

  • 1 Thess 2:9-12
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    9for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

    10ye `are' witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

    11even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

    12for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.

  • Phil 3:16-17
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    16but to what we have come -- by the same rule walk, the same thing think;

    17become followers together of me, brethren, and observe those thus walking, according as ye have us -- a pattern;

  • 1 Thess 4:1-2
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    1As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

    2for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

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    5because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,

    6and ye -- ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

    7so that ye became patterns to all those believing in Macedonia and Achaia,

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    11and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

    12that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

  • 1 Thess 3:3-4
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    3that no one be moved in these tribulations, for yourselves have known that for this we are set,

    4for even when we were with you, we said to you beforehand, that we are about to suffer tribulation, as also it did come to pass, and ye have known `it';

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    1For yourselves have known, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it did not become vain,

  • 1 Thess 5:12
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    12And we ask you, brethren, to know those labouring among you, and leading you in the Lord, and admonishing you,

  • 1 Cor 11:1-2
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    1Followers of me become ye, as I also `am' of Christ.

    2And I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances ye keep,

  • 1 Thess 2:5-7
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    5for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God `is' witness!)

    6nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.

    7But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,

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    9for they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God,

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    15so, then, brethren, stand ye fast, and hold the deliverances that ye were taught, whether through word, whether through our letter;

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    7because of this we were comforted, brethren, over you, in all our tribulation and necessity, through your faith,

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    7concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,

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    2receive us; no one did we wrong; no one did we waste; no one did we defraud;

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    11And our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you,

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    12For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

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    3for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;

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    14for ye became imitators, brethren, of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because such things ye suffered, even ye, from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews,

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    1Wherefore no longer forbearing, we thought good to be left in Athens alone,

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    14and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;

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    6and even if unlearned in word -- yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.

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    16I call upon you, therefore, become ye followers of me;

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    10And thou -- thou hast followed after my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, endurance,

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    3unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,

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    14as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

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    4in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,