Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.
2 Thessalonians 3
Prayer and confidence
Verse 3:1
Greek–English Translation
Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, just as it also is among you,
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: Run keeps the word’s movement image rather than replacing it only with be popular or be accepted. Reception: R10.
Verse 3:2
Greek–English Translation
and that we may be rescued from perverse and evil people, for not all have faith.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: Rescued continues the requested prayer in 3:1. Perverse and evil qualify the people opposed to the mission; not all have faith denies universality without saying that no one believes. Reception: R10.
Verse 3:3
Greek–English Translation
But the Lord is faithful; He will establish you and guard you from the evil one.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: Tou ponērou may be masculine, the evil one, or neuter, evil. The evil one is chosen; the morphology alone does not exclude the other reading. Reception: R11.
Verse 3:4
Greek–English Translation
And we are confident in the Lord about you, that you both do and will do what we command.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: Confidence is in the Lord concerning the recipients. Both do and will do preserve the present and future actions, so the statement is neither only praise for past obedience nor merely a future command. Reception: R11.
Verse 3:5
Greek–English Translation
And may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the endurance of Christ.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: Love of God can concern God’s love or love toward Him; endurance of Christ can concern Christ’s endurance or endurance directed toward/waiting for Him. The genitives remain visible rather than forcing one account. Reception: R11.
Work, example, and brotherly correction
Verse 3:6
Greek–English Translation
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition that they received from us.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: G’s parelabosan is third-person plural, they received, although every brother is singular. The shift is preserved and noted; it is not silently corrected to he or you. Disorderly renders ataktōs and is explained by the work/meddling context. Reception: R12, A02.
Verse 3:7
Greek–English Translation
For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we did not behave disorderly among you,
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: You yourselves know and imitate us recall an observable example. Did not behave disorderly picks up 3:6 and is completed by the concrete account of work and support in 3:8–9. Reception: R12, A02.
Verse 3:8
Greek–English Translation
nor did we eat anyone’s bread without payment, but with labor and toil we worked night and day so as not to burden any of you.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: Bread names subsistence, while without payment renders dōrean. Labor and toil and night and day preserve the paired expressions; the stated purpose is to avoid burdening any recipient. Reception: R12, A02.
Verse 3:9
Greek–English Translation
It was not that we lack the right, but that we might give ourselves to you as an example for you to imitate.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: The double negative denies that the missionaries lack the right to support. Their chosen example, not absence of entitlement, explains the labor described in 3:8. Reception: R12, A02.
Verse 3:10
Greek–English Translation
For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: if anyone is not willing to work, neither let him eat.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: The condition concerns not being willing to work, ou thelei, not every inability to work. The draft does not expand it into an economic policy or apply it to people unable to work. Reception: R12, A02.
Verse 3:11
Greek–English Translation
For we hear that some among you are walking disorderly, not working at all but working at everyone else’s business.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: The source contrasts ergazomenous with periergazomenous, working versus meddling. Working at everyone else’s business attempts to retain that wordplay, not to claim an additional occupation. Reception: R12, A02.
Verse 3:12
Greek–English Translation
Now such people we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and eat their own bread.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: Command and exhort remain two verbs. Work quietly and eat their own bread jointly answer meddling and dependence; the selected text reads in the Lord Jesus Christ. Reception: R12, A02.
Verse 3:13
Greek–English Translation
But you, brothers, do not lose heart in doing good.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: But you turns back to the wider community. Do not lose heart governs continuing to do good, so the correction of disorder does not cancel the positive summons to beneficence. Reception: R13.
Verse 3:14
Greek–English Translation
And if anyone does not obey our word through this letter, take note of that person, and do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: Take note and do not associate are retained together with the stated purpose, shame. The following verse explicitly requires brotherly admonition rather than treating the person as an enemy. Reception: R13.
Verse 3:15
Greek–English Translation
Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: Do not regard him as an enemy limits the preceding social withdrawal. Admonish as a brother states an ongoing relationship and purpose; it does not remove the instruction in 3:14. Reception: R13, P01.
Peace and the final greeting
Verse 3:16
Greek–English Translation
Now may the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always in every way. The Lord be with all of you.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: The Lord of peace Himself is emphatic. Always and in every way express time and manner separately; all of you includes the whole addressed community in the closing wish. Reception: R14.
Verse 3:17
Greek–English Translation
The greeting is in my own hand—Paul’s—which is a sign in every letter. This is how I write.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: Paul’s self-identification and the claimed handwritten sign are represented as the letter’s statement; no autograph manuscript was inspected. Reception: R14.
Verse 3:18
Greek–English Translation
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: All of you is explicit. The accessed running text has no final Amen. Reception: R14.
