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1 Thessalonians 5:14

Warn the Idle. Those who want their own way about everything (see James 4:1-4). [These are some of the people mentioned in 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12.] Encourage the timid. Those who are easily discouraged by the pressures and problems of life. Help the weak. Those weak in "the faith" [who still have much to learn]. Be patient with all. All who err through ignorance, just as God is patient with each of us. The duties in this verse apply especially to the church leaders (who watch over your souls, Hebrews 13:17), also to the evangelists (whose duties somewhat overlap), but also to every Christian. WE ARE OUR BROTHER'S KEEPER!

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    NOW WE EXHORT YOU, BRETHREN - Margin, “beseech.” This earnest entreaty is evidently addressed to the whole church, and not to the ministers of the gospel only. The duties here enjoined are such as per...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    SUNDRY COUNSELS AND EXHORTATIONS. 1 Thessalonians 5:12. Christians are urged to respect their leaders. No officers and ministers are mentioned in this epistle, but this verse implies that the Church h...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    We ask you, brothers, to give due recognition to those who labour among you and to those who preside over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to hold them very highly in love because of the work tha...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    EXHORT. App-134. WARN. Same as "admonish", 1 Thessalonians 5:12. UNRULY. Greek. _ataktos._ Only here. Compare 2 Thessalonians 3:6; 2 Thessalonians 3:11 (the ad

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Section VII. Rules for the Sanctified Life. Ch. 1 Thessalonians 5:12-24 In Section v. (ch. 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12) the _saintship_of his readers supplied the basis and the nerve of the Apostle's char...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Now we exhort you, brethren, warn_them that are _unruly_ More strictly, BUT WE EXHORT, &c. The Apostle is not passing to a new topic. His exhortation to "peace" needs to be qualified. "The unruly" mu...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    § 10. 1 Thessalonians 5:12-15. The Church’s Internal Discipline The specific ὑστερήματα of this Church’s faith (1 Thessalonians 3:10) are now made good, in ch. 1 Thessalonians 4:1

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΟΥ͂ΜΕΝ ΔῈ ὙΜΑ͂Σ, ἈΔΕΛΦΟΊ. _But we exhort you, brothers_. Upon the analysis suggested at the head of the section, ὑμᾶς is distinctive: the writers now _speak to_ those _spoken of_ in 1 Thessalon...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEM THAT ARE UNRULY,— Dr. Heylin, with the margin of our Bibles, renders the original ατακτους, by _disorderly._ It is a military term, expressing the character of soldiers, who keep not their _ranks...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT (1 Thessalonians 5:14) 14 AND WE EXHORT YOU, BRETHREN, ADMONISH THE DISORDERLY, ENCOURAGE THE FAINTHEARTED, SUPPORT THE WEAK, BE LONGSUFFERING TOWARD ALL. Translation and Paraphrase 14. But w...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. BRETHREN. This exhortation to "warn" [ noutheteite (G3560); "admonish,...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    FEEBLEMINDED] better, 'fainthearted.' THE WEAK] i.e. in faith, Romans 15:1....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    The particular form of insubordination at Thessalonica was idleness (for the contemporary use of ἀτ. in this sense, see _Oxyrh. Papyri_, ii. 1901, p. 275). Similarly, in _Olynth_. iii. 11, Demosthenes...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    General instructions for the church....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Under the figure of a camp in which fully armed soldiers are waiting for the break of day, while those not expecting this are sleeping and drunken, the apostle shows that those waiting for the Son are...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    PROPER TREATMENT OF THE UNRULY AND FAINTHEARTED Paul wanted to insure that brethren in various circumstances were watched over in the best possible way. So, he wrote special instructions which may hav...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (9) Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are (e) unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all [men]. (9) We must have consideration of every man, and the remedy mu...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Rebuke, or correct the unquiet. [1] By the Greek, it signifies the disorderly, or those that keep no order. (Witham)_ [BIBLIOGRAPHY] _ The unquiet: inquietos, Greek: ataktous, inordinatos, sine ord...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (12) And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; (13) And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at pea...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    There is a special interest in examining the epistles to the Thessalonians, more particularly the first, because, in point of fact, it was the earliest of the letters of the apostles; and as the first...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    14_Admonish the unruly. _It is a common doctrine — that the welfare of our brethren should be the object of our concern. This is done by _teaching_, admonishing, correcting, and arousing; but, as the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The Lord's coming again into this world assumes therefore a very different character from that of a vague object of hope to a believer as a period of glory. In Chapter 5 the apostle speaks of it, but...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    NOW WE EXHORT YOU, BRETHREN,.... This is said either to the ministers of the word that laboured among them, presided over them, and admonished them; and the rather, because some of these things here d...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all _men_. Ver. 14. _Warn them that are unruly_] Cry _Cave miser, _ Beware the wr...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _We exhort you, brethren_ Not only you who are pastors and rulers, but you that are private members of the church; _warn them that are unruly_ Greek, ατακτους, _disorderly;_ them that stand, as it wer...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    UNRULY; those who live in violation of the rules of God's word. FEEBLE - MINDED; those who are easily disheartened and discouraged. THE WEAK; the weak in faith. Compare Romans 14:1; Romans 15:1....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    CONCLUDING ADMONITIONS AND GREETING. The conduct of Christians toward others:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    NOW WE EXHORT YOU, BRETHREN, WARN THEM THAT ARE UNRULY, COMFORT THE FEEBLE-MINDED, SUPPORT THE WEAK, BE PATIENT TOWARD ALL MEN....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    In contrast to the new revelation Paul gives at the end of ch. 4, he now tells them in ch. 5 that "of the times and seasons" there was no need to write, for this was a matter of which they were well a...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

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  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    EXHORT: Or, beseech UNRULY: Or, disorderly...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    “AND WE EXHORT YOU, BRETHREN, ADMONISH THE DISORDERLY, ENCOURAGE THE FAINTHEARTED, SUPPORT THE WEAK, BE LONGSUFFERING TOWARD ALL” “And we exhort you”: Three distinct groups in this congregation neede...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-15 The ministers of the gospel are described by the work of their office, which is to serve and honour the Lord. It is their duty not only to give good counsel, but also to warn the flock of dange...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    OLBGrk; NOW WE EXHORT YOU, BRETHREN: some think the apostle now turns his speech to their teachers, whom he here calls _brethren_ in a more peculiar sense, and because the duties here enjoined do more...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all. [The word "disorderly" describes the soldier who does not remain in the...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Tertullian De Fuga in Persecutione Where, then, do you show that they renewed the command to flee from city to city? In fact, it was utterly impossible that they should have laid down anything so utt...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Thessalonians 5:14 Now G1161 exhort G3870 (G5719) you G5209 brethren G80 warn G3560 (G5720) unruly G813

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And we exhort you, brothers and sisters, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering towards all. See that none render to anyone evil for evil, but always...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    AS Paul's custom was, he concludes this Epistle with a number of practical injunctions suitable to the circumstances of those to whom he writes, and more or less connected with one another....

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

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  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    ADMONISH THE DISORDERLY (νουθετειτε τους ατακτους). Put sense into the unruly mob who break ranks (α privative and τακτος, verbal adjective of τασσω, to keep military order). Recall the idlers from...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    1 Thessalonians 5:9 I. This passage, 1 Thessalonians 5:9, has its interest and value as showing us that the earliest and the latest of the Pauline Epistles are all at one in regard to the central doct...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    1 Thessalonians 5:1. _But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night._ It...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The model walk for the believer. The day of Jehovah. Exhortations to believers. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: Let Christians live like men who are awake, living in cons...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Thessalonians 5:1. _Of the times and seaso_n _s, ye have no need that I write to you._ Paul as a prophet might have said much concerning the dispensations of providence which should attend the churc...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Now we exhort you, brethren, war them that are unruly--The verse contains four distinct, but coordinate and mutually connected exhortations._ I. “Warn them that are unruly.” In pursuing peace, fideli...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 5:14 IDLE. Some Thessalonians were ignoring their responsibility to work. See 1 Thessalonians 4:9; also...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 5:14. WARN THEM THAT ARE UNRULY.—R.V. “admonish the disorderly.” Every Church knows these characters—men who will break through all restraint. COMFORT...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—With regard to the time of that glorious advent when believers, whether dead or living, will be gathered together to Christ, the Thessalonians had already been fully instructed. T...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    But of the times and seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 13:4; 1 Corinthians 13:5; 1 Corinthians 4:14; 1 Thessalonians 2:7;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Them that are unruly [τ ο υ ς α τ α κ τ ο υ ς]. N. T. o The A. V. is more vigorous and less stilted than Rev. disorderly. From aj not and tassein draw up or arrange. Those who are out of line. Comp. t...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Warn the disorderly — Them that stand, as it were, out of their rank in the spiritual warfare. Some such were even in that church. The feeble — minded — Literally, them of little soul; such as have no...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Here our apostle directs the ministers of Christ how to carry themselves towards their people, namely, that they should admonish those that are unruly and walk disorderly; that they should COMFORT THE...

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