As for the rest of you, dear brothers and sisters, never get tired of doing good.
Parallel translations
- WEB But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing well.
- KJV But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
- BSB But as for you, brothers, do not grow weary in well-doing.
- NKJV But as for you, brethren, do not grow weary in doing good.
- NASB But as for you, brothers and sisters, do not grow weary of doing good.
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Quick answer
Paul encourages the rest of the church never to grow weary in doing good. Faithful well-doing must continue despite the failures of a few.
Overview
Turning from the idle to the faithful, Paul guards against discouragement, lest dealing with troublemakers make the diligent give up. The exhortation to persevere in "doing well" echoes Galatians 6:9. It reminds believers that the misconduct of some is no excuse to abandon active goodness.
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- Gal 6:9–10Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
- Heb 12:3For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
- 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
- Isa 40:29–31He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
- 2 Cor 4:16Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
- Luke 18:1He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
- Ps 27:13I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
- Rev 2:3You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
- Zeph 3:16In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.”
- 1 Th 4:1Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
- Heb 12:5and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
- Phil 1:9This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
- Mal 1:13You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.
- Deut 20:8The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”
- Rom 2:7to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
- 1 Cor 15:28When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.
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