{"id":1259,"date":"2025-02-05T23:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T04:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/eng\/2-thessalonians-3"},"modified":"2025-02-05T23:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T04:19:11","slug":"2-thessalonians-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2025\/02\/05\/2-thessalonians-3\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Thessalonians 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2Th 3:1  For the rest, brothers, pray concerning us, that the Word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as also it has with you,<br \/>\n2Th 3:2  and that we may be delivered from perverse and evil men. For faith is not in all men.<br \/>\n2Th 3:3  But the Lord is faithful who will establish and will guard you from the evil.<br \/>\n2Th 3:4  But we are persuaded in the Lord as to you, that whatever things we have commanded you, you both do and you will do.<br \/>\n2Th 3:5  And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.<br \/>\n2Th 3:6  And we enjoin you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to draw yourselves back from every brother walking in a disorderly way, and not according to the teaching which you received from us.<br \/>\n2Th 3:7  For you yourselves know how it is right to act like us, because we were not disorderly among you;<br \/>\n2Th 3:8  nor did we eat bread from anyone as a gift, but by labor and toil, working night and day in order not to burden anyone of you.<br \/>\n2Th 3:9  Not that we do not have authority, but that we give ourselves as an example to you, for you to act like us.<br \/>\n2Th 3:10  For even when we were with you, we commanded this to you: If anyone does not desire to work, neither let him eat.<br \/>\n2Th 3:11  For we hear some are walking in a disorderly way among you, not working at all, but being busybodies.<br \/>\n2Th 3:12  And we command such and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that working with quietness, they may eat their own bread.<br \/>\n2Th 3:13  And you, brothers, do not lose heart in well doing.<br \/>\n2Th 3:14  But if anyone does not obey our Word through the letter, mark that one, and do not associate with him, that he be shamed.<br \/>\n2Th 3:15  But do not count him as one hostile, but warn him as a brother.<br \/>\n2Th 3:16  And may the Lord of peace Himself continually give peace to you in every way. The Lord be with all of you.<br \/>\n2Th 3:17  The greeting of Paul by my hand is the sign in every letter; so I write.<br \/>\n2Th 3:18  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2Th 3:1 For the rest, brothers, pray concerning us, that the Word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as also it has with you, 2Th 3:2 and that we may be delivered from perverse and evil men. For faith is not in all men. 2Th 3:3 But the Lord is faithful who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24002,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/24002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}