2 Thessalonians, Chapter 3, verses 6-18
6 giveth them diverse precepts, especially to shun idleness and ill company, 16 and last of all concludeth with prayer and salutationLuke, Chapter 14, verses 15-18
15 under the parable of the great supper, showeth how worldly-minded men who contemn the word of God shall be shut out of heaven14
14:16 Then said he - Continuing the allusion. A certain man made a great supper - As if he had said, All men are not sensible of this happiness. Many might have a part in it, and will not.
14:18 They all began to make excuse - One of them pleads only his own will, I go: another, a pretended necessity, I must needs go: the third, impossibility, I cannot come: all of them want the holy hatred mentioned Luk 14:26. All of them perish by things in themselves lawful. I must needs go - The most urgent worldly affairs frequently fall out just at the time when God makes the freest offers of salvation.
Luke, Chapter 17, verses 1-4
1 Christ teacheth to avoid occasions of offence, 3 One to forgive another17
17:1 It is impossible but offences will come - And they ever did and do come chiefly by Pharisees, that is, men who trust in themselves that they are righteous, and despise others. Mat 18:6; Mar 9:42.
17:2 Little ones - Weak believers.
17:3 Take heed to yourselves - That ye neither offend others, nor be offended by others. Mat 18:15.
17:4 If he sin against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day return, saying, I repent - That is, if he give sufficient proof that he does really repent, after having sinned ever so often, receive him just as if he had never sinned against thee.But this forgiveness is due only to real penitents. In a lower sense we are to forgive all, penitent or impenitent; (so as to bear them the sincerest good will, and to do them all the good we can;) and that not seven times only, but seventy times seven.
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3:6 That walketh disorderly - Particularly by not working.Not according to the tradition he received of us - The admonition we gave, both by word of mouth, and in our former epistle.
3:10 Neither let him eat - Do not maintain him in idleness.
3:11 Doing nothing, but being busybodies - To which idleness naturally disposes.
3:12 Work quietly - Letting the concerns of other people alone.
3:14 Have no company with him - No intimacy, no familiarity, no needless correspondence.
3:15 Admonish him as a brother - Tell him lovingly of the reason why you shun him.
3:16 The Lord of peace - Christ. Give you peace by all means - In every way and manner.