2For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
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Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
To them that are without law, as without law,(being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
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 he received of us.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Here we have, I. An exhortation to abound in holiness, to abound more and more in that which is good, 1 Thess. 4:1 , 2 . We may observe, 1. The manner in which the exhortation is given—very affectionately. The apostle entreats them as brethren; he calls them so, and loved them as such. Because his love to them was very great, he exhorts them very earnestly: We beseech and exhort you . The apostle…
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