2 Thessalonians 3:15

Amplified Bible

Do not regard him as an enemy, but keep admonishing him as a [believing] brother.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Yet don’t consider him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

King James Version (1611)
Yet count him not as an enemie, but admonish him as a brother.

King James Version
Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

English Standard Version
Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

New American Standard Bible
And yet do not regard that person as an enemy, but admonish that one as a brother or sister.

New Century Version
But do not treat them as enemies. Warn them as fellow believers.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Legacy Standard Bible
And yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Berean Standard Bible
Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

Contemporary English Version
Don't consider them your enemies, but speak kindly to them as you would to any other follower.

Complete Jewish Bible
But don't consider him an enemy; on the contrary, confront him as a brother and try to help him change.

Darby Translation
and do not esteem him as an enemy, but admonish [him] as a brother.

Easy-to-Read Version
But don't treat them as enemies. Counsel them as fellow believers.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Yet count him not as an enemie, but admonish him as a brother.

George Lamsa Translation
Yet do not consider him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Good News Translation
But do not treat them as enemies; instead, warn them as believers.

Lexham English Bible
And do not consider him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Literal Translation
But do not count him as one hostile, but warn him as a brother.

American Standard Version
And yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Bible in Basic English
Have no feeling of hate for him, but take him in hand seriously as a brother.

Hebrew Names Version
Don't count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
Yet, not as an enemy hold him, but admonish him as a brother.

Murdock Translation
Yet, hold him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yet count him not as an enemie, but warne hym as a brother.

English Revised Version
And [yet] count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

World English Bible
Don't count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Weymouth's New Testament
And yet do not regard him as an enemy, but caution him as a brother.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and nyle ye gesse hym as an enemye, but repreue ye hym as a brother. And God hym silf of pees yyue to you euerlastinge pees in al place.

Update Bible Version
And [yet] do not count as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Webster's Bible Translation
Yet count [him] not as an enemy, but admonish [him] as a brother.

New English Translation
Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

New King James Version
Yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

New Living Translation
Don't think of them as enemies, but warn them as you would a brother or sister.

New Life Bible
Do not think of him as one who hates you. But talk to him as a Christian brother.

New Revised Standard
Do not regard them as enemies, but warn them as believers.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, not as an enemy, be esteeming him, but be admonishing him, as a brother.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yet do not esteem him as an enemy but admonish him as a brother.

Revised Standard Version
Do not look on him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And count him not as an enemy: but warne him as a brother.

Young's Literal Translation
and as an enemy count [him] not, but admonish ye [him] as a brother;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yet counte him not as an enemye, but warne him as a brother.

Mace New Testament (1729)
however, don't treat him as an enemy, but reprove him as a brother.

Simplified Cowboy Version
I'm not saying they should be treated as enemies, but let your actions be a warning to them, not because you hate them, but because you love them.

Contextual Overview

⁶Now we command you, believers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by His authority, that you withdraw and keep away from every brother or sister who leads an undisciplined life and does not live in accordance with the tradition and teaching that you have received from us. ⁷For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined or inappropriate manner when we were with you [we were never idle or lazy, nor did we avoid our duties], ⁸nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we worked night and day [to pay our own way] so that we would not be a financial burden on any of you [for our support]; ⁹not because we do not have a right to such support, but [we provided our own financial support] to offer ourselves as a model for you, so that you would follow our example. ¹⁰For even while we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either. ¹¹Indeed, we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined and inappropriate life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies [meddling in other people's business]. ¹²Now such people we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and work quietly and earn their own food and other necessities [supporting themselves instead of depending on the hospitality of others]. ¹³And as for [the rest of] you, believers, do not grow tired or lose heart in doing good [but continue doing what is right without weakening]. ¹⁴Now if anyone [in the church] does not obey what we say in this letter, take special note of that person and do not associate with him, so that he will be ashamed and repent. ¹⁵Do not regard him as an enemy, but keep admonishing him as a [believing] brother.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

count: Leviticus 19:17, Leviticus 19:18, 1 Corinthians 5:5, 2 Corinthians 2:6-10, 2 Corinthians 10:8, 2 Corinthians 13:10, Galatians 6:1, 1 Thessalonians 5:14, Jude 1:22, Jude 1:23

admonish: Psalms 141:5, Proverbs 9:9, Proverbs 25:12, Matthew 18:15, 1 Corinthians 4:14, Titus 3:10, James 5:19, James 5:20

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:3 - pronounce Job 13:24 - holdest me Matthew 18:17 - let Romans 16:17 - mark 2 Corinthians 2:7 - ye Colossians 3:16 - teaching 2 Thessalonians 3:6 - that ye 1 Timothy 1:20 - that

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty (subtle, skilled in deceit) than any living creature of the field which the LORD God had made. And the serpent (Satan) said to the woman, "Can it really be that God has said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"

Genesis 3:3
except the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God said, 'You shall not eat from it nor touch it, otherwise you will die.'"

Genesis 3:4
But the serpent said to the woman, "You certainly will not die!

Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise and insightful, she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.

Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of the two of them were opened [that is, their awareness increased], and they knew that they were naked; and they fastened fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

Genesis 3:8
And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool [afternoon breeze] of the day, so the man and his wife hid and kept themselves hidden from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:10
He said, "I heard the sound of You [walking] in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself."

Genesis 3:13
Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent beguiled and deceived me, and I ate [from the forbidden tree]."

Genesis 3:14
The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all the cattle, And more than any animal of the field; On your belly you shall go, And dust you shall eat All the days of your life.

Genesis 3:15
"And I will put enmity (open hostility) Between you and the woman, And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed; He shall [fatally] bruise your head, And you shall [only] bruise His heel."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yet count him not as an enemy,.... As an enemy of Christ, and the Christian religion, as the Jews and Pagans were; or as an enemy of all righteousness, as Elymas the sorcerer was; as one that has an implacable hatred to good men, and a persecutor of them, and has an utter aversion to them and their principles; nor deal with him in an hostile, fierce, furious, and passionate manner, as if you were seeking his destruction, and not his restoration. This seems to be levelled against the Jews, who allowed of hatred to incorrigible persons: they say t,

"an hater that is spoken of in the law, is not of the nations of the world, but of Israel; but how shall an Israelite hate an Israelite? does not the Scripture say, "thou shall not hate thy brother in thine heart?" the wise men say, when a man sees him alone, who has committed a transgression, and he admonishes him, and he does not return, lo, it is מצוה לשונאו, "a commandment to hate him" until he repents and turns from his wickedness.''

But admonish, or "reprove" him

as a brother; as one that has been called a brother, and a member of the church, and who, though criminal, has no bitterness in him against the church, or against the name of Christ, and the doctrines of Christ; and therefore should not be treated in a virulent manner, but with a brotherly affection, meekness, compassion, and tenderness; and who indeed is to be reckoned as a brother, while the censure is passing, and the sentence of excommunication is executing on him; for till it is finished he stands in such a relation: though this also may have respect, as to the manner of excommunicating persons, so to the conduct of the church to such afterwards; who are not to neglect them, and much less to treat them as enemies, in a cruel and uncompassionate manner; but should inquire, and diligently observe, what effect the ordinance of excommunication has upon them, and renew their admonitions and friendly reproofs, if possible, to recover them.

t Maimon. Hilchot Rotzeach, c. 13. sect. 14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother - This shows the true spirit in which discipline is to be administered in the Christian church. We are not to deal with a man as an adversary over whom we are to seek to gain a victory, but as an erring brother - a brother still, though he errs. There was necessity for this caution. There is great danger that when we undertake the work of discipline we shall forget that he who is the subject of it is a brother, and that we shall regard and treat him as an enemy. Such is human nature. We set ourselves in array against him. We cut him off as one who is unworthy to walk with us. We triumph over him, and consider him at once as an enemy of the church, and as having lost all claim to its sympathies. We abandon him to the tender mercies of a cold and unfeeling world, and let him take his course. Perhaps we follow him with anathemas, and hold him up as unworthy the confidence of mankind. Now all this is entirely unlike the method and aim of discipline as the New Testament requires. There all is kind, and gentle, though firm; the offender is a man and a brother still; he is to be followed with tender sympathy and prayer, and the hearts and the arms of the Christian brotherhood are to be open to receive him again when he gives any evidence of repenting.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. Count him not as an enemy — Consider him still more an enemy to himself than to you; and admonish him as a brother, though you have ceased to hold religious communion with him. His soul is still of infinite value; labour to get it saved.