Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



But, by the authority of the Lord, we command you, brethren, to stand aloof from every brother whose life is disorderly and not in accordance with the teaching which all received from us. Verse Conceptsevil, believers' responses toExcommunicationSluggardsTraditionsFellowship With WickedBad CompanyEvil AssociationsIn The Name Of ChristChristian TraditionsA Mans CharacterHaving No DealingsMen's OrdersChristians Being Called Brothers

No one has God, who instead of remaining true to the teaching of Christ, presses on in advance: but he who remains true to that teaching has both the Father and the Son. If any one who comes to you does not bring this teaching, do not receive him under your roof nor bid him Farewell. He who bids him Farewell is a sharer in his evil deeds.




I wrote to you in that letter that you were not to associate with fornicators; not that in this world you are to keep wholly aloof from such as they, any more than from people who are avaricious and greedy of gain, or from worshippers of idols. For that would mean that you would be compelled to go out of the world altogether. But what I meant was that you were not to associate with any one bearing the name of "brother," if he was addicted to fornication or avarice or idol-worship or abusive language or hard-drinking or greed of gain. With such a man you ought not even to eat. read more.
For what business of mine is it to judge outsiders? Is it not for you to judge those who are within the Church while you leave to God's judgement those who are outside? Remove the wicked man from among you.

So teach and exhort. If any one is a teacher of any other kind of doctrine, and refuses assent to wholesome instructions--those of our Lord Jesus Christ--and the teaching that harmonizes with true godliness, he is puffed up with pride and has no true knowledge, but is crazy over discussions and controversies about words which give rise to envy, quarrelling, revilings, ill-natured suspicions, and persistent wranglings on the part of people whose intellects are disordered and they themselves blinded to all knowledge of the truth; who imagine that godliness means gain.

You, therefore, dear friends, having been warned beforehand, must continually be on your guard so as not to be led astray by the false teaching of immoral men nor fall from your own stedfastness. Verse ConceptsBalance In LifeFailureExamples, Badevil, warnings againstWarnings Against ApostasyFalse Doctrine, Dangers OfGuardsHeresiesSatan, Resistance ToTemptation, ResistingWarningBeing BewareSteadfastnessErrorLosing A FriendLosing FriendssteadfastFalling Away From God




Be carefully on your guard lest there be any one who falls back from the grace of God; lest any root bearing bitter fruit spring up and cause trouble among you, and through it the whole brotherhood be defiled; Verse ConceptsBeing BitterDefilement, Objects OfGrace, And Christian LifeResentment, Against PeopleRootsSanctification, Means And ResultsConflict ResolutionPeople Being PollutedThe Grace Given To MenDefilementCauses of failure inBitternesscancer


Let it then be our earnest endeavour to be admitted to that rest, so that no one may perish through following the same example of unbelief. Verse ConceptsExamples, Purpose OfExamples, BadeagernessHolidayRest, EternalUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfUnbelief, Results Of Being GuiltyEntering LifeeffortUnbelief Toward God

You, therefore, dear friends, having been warned beforehand, must continually be on your guard so as not to be led astray by the false teaching of immoral men nor fall from your own stedfastness. Verse ConceptsBalance In LifeFailureExamples, Badevil, warnings againstWarnings Against ApostasyFalse Doctrine, Dangers OfGuardsHeresiesSatan, Resistance ToTemptation, ResistingWarningBeing BewareSteadfastnessErrorLosing A FriendLosing FriendssteadfastFalling Away From God




Be carefully on your guard lest there be any one who falls back from the grace of God; lest any root bearing bitter fruit spring up and cause trouble among you, and through it the whole brotherhood be defiled; Verse ConceptsBeing BitterDefilement, Objects OfGrace, And Christian LifeResentment, Against PeopleRootsSanctification, Means And ResultsConflict ResolutionPeople Being PollutedThe Grace Given To MenDefilementCauses of failure inBitternesscancer


Let it then be our earnest endeavour to be admitted to that rest, so that no one may perish through following the same example of unbelief. Verse ConceptsExamples, Purpose OfExamples, BadeagernessHolidayRest, EternalUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfUnbelief, Results Of Being GuiltyEntering LifeeffortUnbelief Toward God