Lectionary Calendar
Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
Attention!
Take your personal ministry to the Next Level by helping StudyLight build churches and supporting pastors in Uganda.
Click here to join the effort!

Read the Bible

Murdock Translation

2 Thessalonians 3:15

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Commandments;   Fellowship;   Fraternity;   Thompson Chain Reference - Admonition;   Commendation-Reproof;   Duty;   The Topic Concordance - Admonition;   Company;   Disobedience;   Enemies;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Missionaries, All Christians Should Be as;   Reproof;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Excommunication;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Brother;   Church;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Discipline;   Wealth;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Thessalonians, the Epistles to the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Excommunication;   2 Thessalonians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Excommunication;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Admonition;   Brethren;   Brotherhood (2);   Care, Careful;   Thessalonians Epistles to the;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Excommunication;   Salvation;  

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.
Amplified Bible
Do not regard him as an enemy, but keep admonishing him as a [believing] 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
Yet, don't treat him like an enemy, but warninstruct
">[fn] him like a brother.Leviticus 19:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; Titus 3:10;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
Yet, not as an enemy hold him, 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

6 And we enjoin upon you, my brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, that ye withdraw from every brother who walketh wickedly, and not according to the precepts which ye received from us. 7 For ye know how ye ought to imitate us, who did not walk wickedly among you. 8 Neither did we eat bread gratuitously from any of you; but, with toil and weariness, we labored by night and by day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you. 9 It was not because we have no authority, but that we might give you an example in ourselves, that ye might imitate us. 10 And while we were with you, we also gave you this precept, That every one who would not work, should likewise not eat. 11 For we hear, there are some among you who walk wickedly, and do nothing except vain things. 12 Now such persons, we command and exhort, by our Lord Jesus the Messiah, that in quietness they work, and eat their own bread. 13 And my brethren, let it not be wearisome to you, to do what is good. 14 14 And if any one hearkeneth not to these [fn] words in this epistle, separate that man from you, and have no intimacy with him, that he may be ashamed. 15 Yet, hold him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a 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

Matthew 1:23
Behold, a virgin will conceive, and will bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Emmanuel, which is interpreted, Our God with us.
Matthew 1:25
And he knew her not, until she had borne her firstborn son, and called is name Jesus.
Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees, who came to be baptized, he said to them: Generation of vipers, who hath taught you to flee from the wrath that cometh?
Matthew 12:34
Offspring of vipers, how can ye who are evil, speak good things? For out of the fullnesses of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Matthew 13:38
And the field is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked One.
Matthew 23:33
Ye serpents, ye race of vipers: how can ye escape the condemnation of hell?
Mark 16:18
And they will take up serpents; and if they should drink a deadly poison, it will not harm them; and they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will be healed.
Luke 1:76
And thou, child, wilt be called a prophet of the Most High; for thou wilt go before the face of the Lord, to prepare his way,
Luke 10:19
Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents, and scorpions, and on all the power of the adversary: and nothing shall harm you.
Luke 22:53
I was with you daily in the temple, and ye laid not hands upon me. But this is your hour, and the reign of darkness.

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.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile