the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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2 Thessalonians 3:2
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And pray that we will be protected from crooked and evil people. Not everyone believes in the Lord, you know.
and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men; for not all have faith.
and that we maye be delivered from vnresonable and evyll men. For all men have not fayth:
and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith.
and that we will be rescued from troublesome and evil people; for not all have the faith.
And pray that we will be protected from stubborn and evil people, because not all people believe.
and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for all do not have faith.
And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all [men] have not faith.
and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith.
and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith.
And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all men have not faith.
and that we may be delivered from wrong-headed and wicked men; for it is not everybody who has faith.
and that we be delyuered fro noyous and yuele men; for feith is not of alle men.
and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for all have not faith.
And pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men; for not everyone holds to the faith.
Pray that we may be kept safe from worthless and evil people. After all, not everyone has faith.
and [pray] that we will be rescued from perverse and evil men; for not everyone has the faith.
and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for all have not faith.
And that we may be made free from foolish and evil men; for not all have faith.
and that we may be rescued from wicked and evil people, for not everyone has trust.
and that we may be delivered from bad and evil men, for faith [is] not [the portion] of all.
And that we may be delivered from wicked men and perverse; for every man hath not faith.
and that we may be delivered from evil and perverse men; for faith is not in all.
And that we may bee deliuered from vnreasonable and wicked men: for all men haue not faith.
Pray, too, that we will be rescued from wicked and evil people, for not everyone is a believer.
Pray that we will be kept from sinful men, because not all men are Christians.
and that we may be rescued from wicked and evil people; for not all have faith.
And that we may be deliuered from vnreasonable and euill men: for all men haue not fayth.
And that we may be delivered from evil and unreasonable men: for not every man has faith.
And that we may be rescued from the presuming and wicked men; for, not all, hold the faith.
And that we may be delivered from importunate and evil men: for all men have not faith.
And that we may be delyuered from disordered and euyll men: For all men haue not fayth.
Pray also that God will rescue us from wicked and evil people; for not everyone believes the message.
and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil people, for not all have faith.
And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
and that we may be delivered from evil and wicked people, for not all have the faith.
and that we may be delivered from perverse and evil men. For faith is not in all men .
and that we may be delivered from the unreasonable and evil men, for the faith [is] not of all;
and that we maye be delyuered from vnreasonable and euell me. For faith is not euery mas.
and that we may be delivered from vexatious wicked men; for all have not the faith.
and that we may be delivered from perverse and evil people. For not all have faith.
and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for not all have faith.
Also pray that we will not be defeated by those unbelievers who are hell-bent on stampeding those we've gathered.
and that we will be rescued from perverse and evil men; for not all have faith.
and that we will be rescued from perverse and evil men, for not all have faith.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
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delivered: Romans 15:31, 1 Corinthians 15:32, 2 Corinthians 1:8-10, 1 Thessalonians 2:18, 2 Timothy 4:17
unreasonable: Gr. absurd
for: Deuteronomy 32:20, Matthew 17:17, Matthew 23:23, Luke 18:8, John 2:23-25, Acts 13:45, Acts 13:50, Acts 14:2, Acts 17:5, Acts 28:24, Romans 10:16, 2 Corinthians 4:3, 2 Corinthians 4:4
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 26:24 - let him deliver Psalms 97:10 - delivereth Galatians 5:22 - faith Colossians 4:3 - that
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men,.... Either from the unbelieving Jews, see Romans 15:30 who were the avowed enemies of the Gospel, and did all they could to hinder the spread of it; and who were the implacable and constant adversaries of the apostle; who often lay in wait for him, and opposed him, and gave him trouble in all places, stirring up the people against him: or from the false teachers, and those of their party, who are the false brethren by whom he often was in perils; who were enemies of the cross of Christ, and great hindrances to the spread of the Gospel; being men of absurd principles, and of wicked lives and conversations, whereby they perverted the Gospel of Christ, brought a reproach upon it, stumbled some, and overthrew the faith of others; and from these the apostle desires to be delivered:
for all men have not faith: no man has faith of himself, it is the gift of God, and the operation of his Spirit; and it is only given to the elect of God, who are ordained unto eternal life, and therefore it is called the faith of God's elect; all mankind have it not, none but Christ's sheep; and the reason why others have it not is, because they are not of his sheep. This is a truth; but rather the true sense of the words is, that all that are professors of religion, and members of churches, and even all that are preachers of the word, have not faith. They may have an historical and temporary faith and the faith of miracles, and even all faith but the true faith; they may profess to believe, and yet not believe, as Simon Magus, and his followers seem to be intended here; for this is given as a reason why the apostle desired to be delivered from the above men. The Jews say o, that
"he that studies not in the law, לאו ביה מהימנותא, "there is no faith in him"--and it is forbidden to come near him, or to trade with him, or to walk with him, "because there is no faith in him".''
The apostle seems to allude to this custom.
o Zohar in Lev. fol. 33. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men - That is, from opposition in their endeavors to spread the gospel. Paul encountered such men everywhere, as all do who labor to diffuse the knowledge of the truth, but it is probable that there is particular reference here to the opposition which he encountered when in Corinth. This opposition arose mainly from the Jews; see Acts 18:5-6, Acts 18:12-13. The word “unreasonable” is rendered in the margin as “absurd.” The Greek word (ἀτόπος atopos) means, properly, “out of place;” then “absurd, unusual, strange; then improper, unreasonable, wicked.” It is rendered in Luke 23:41 as “amiss;” in Acts 28:6 as “harm.” It does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament. It refers here to people who acted amiss or improperly; people who were not found in the right place, or who did not have the right views of things; and probably does not refer so much to their being positively wicked or malicious, as “to their putting things out of their proper place.”
They gave an undue prominence to certain things, and less importance to others than they deserved. They had a distorted vision of the value of objects, and in tenacious adherence to their own views, and prosecuting their own objects to the exclusion of all others, they presented a constant obstruction to the true gospel. This word would apply, and probably was designed to be applied, to Jewish teachers (see Acts 18:5-6), who gave an undue prominence to the laws of Moses; but it will apply well to all who entertain distorted views of the relative importance of objects, and who put things out of their place. People often have a hobby. They give more importance to some object than it deserves. They, therefore, undervalue other objects; press their own with improper zeal; denounce others who do not feel the same interest in them which they do; withdraw from those who will not go with them in their views; form separate parties, and thus throw themselves in the way of all who are endeavoring to do good in some other method. It was from people who thus put themselves out of place, that the apostle prayed to be delivered.
And wicked men - Men with bad aims and purposes. It is not always true that those who would come under the appellation of what the apostle here calls “unreasonable,” are wicked. They are sometimes well-meaning, but misguided people. But in this case, it seems, they were men of bad character, who were at heart opposed to what was good, as well as inclined to put things out of their place.
For all men have not faith - Of the truth of this, no one can doubt. The only question is, as to its bearing on the case before us. Some suppose it means, “there are few men whom we can safely trust;” others, that it means that they have not that “upright and candid disposition which would engage men to receive the testimony of the apostles” (Doddridge); others, that “all men do not embrace the Christian faith, but many oppose it” (Benson); and others, that “all men do not believe, but the worthy only” - Bloomfield. The connection seems to require us to understand it as meaning that all people are not prepared to embrace the gospel. Hence, they set themselves against it, and from such people Paul prayed that he might be delivered; compare 2 Timothy 3:8. The state of mind in which the apostle was when he wrote this, seems to have been this: He recollected the readiness with which the Thessalonians had embraced the gospel, and the firmness with which they held it, and seems to suppose that they would imagine the same thing must be found true everywhere. But he says all people have not the same faith; all were not prepared cordially and fully to embrace the gospel. There were unreasonable and wicked people whom he had encountered, from whom he prayed that he might be delivered.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Thessalonians 3:2. Unreasonable and wicked men — The word ατοπων, which we translate unreasonable, signifies rather disorderly, unmanageable; persons out of their place-under no discipline, regardless of law and restraint, and ever acting agreeably to the disorderly and unreasonable impulse of their own minds.
For all men have not faith. — The word πιστις is without doubt, to be taken here for fidelity or trustworthiness, and not for faith; and this is agreeable to the meaning given to it in the very next verse: But the Lord is faithful, πιστος δε εστιν ὁ Κυριος.
There are many, even of those who have received a measure of the Divine light, in whom we cannot confide; they are irregular, disorderly, and cannot be brought under regular discipline: to these we cannot trust either ourselves or any thing that concerns the cause of God. But the Lord is worthy of your whole confidence; doubt him not; he will establish you, and keep you from any evil to which you may be exposed by these or such like persons.
