14 [a]If any man obey not this our saying in this letter, note him, and have no [b]company with him, [c]that he may be ashamed.

15 [d]Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

16 [e]Now the Lord himself of peace give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 3:14 Excommunication is a punishment for the obstinate.
  2. 2 Thessalonians 3:14 We must have no familiarity nor fellowship with the excommunicate.
  3. 2 Thessalonians 3:14 The end of the excommunication is not the destruction, but the salvation of the sinner, that at least through shame he may be driven in repentance.
  4. 2 Thessalonians 3:15 We must so eschew familiarity with the excommunicate, that we diligently seek all occasions and means that may be to bring them again into the right way.
  5. 2 Thessalonians 3:16 Prayers are the seals of all exhortations.

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