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# 2 Thessalonians 3

2 Thessalonians 3 is chapter 3 of 3 in the Second Letter to the Thessalonians. Here are all 18 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> He begs their prayers and warns them against idleness.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 2 Thessalonians 3 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Concerning other things, brothers, pray for us, so that the Word of God may advance and be glorified, just as it is among you,
2. and so that we may be freed from pertinacious and evil men. For not everyone is faithful.
3. But God is faithful. He will strengthen you, and he will guard you from evil.
4. And we have confidence about you in the Lord, that you are doing, and will continue to do, just as we have instructed.
5. And may the Lord direct your hearts, in the charity of God and with the patience of Christ.
6. But we strongly caution you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to draw yourselves away from every brother who is walking in disorder and not according to the tradition that they received from us.
7. For you yourselves know the manner in which you ought to imitate us. For we were not disorderly among you.
8. Nor did we eat bread from anyone for free, but rather, we worked night and day, in hardship and weariness, so as not to be burdensome to you.
9. It was not as if we had no authority, but this was so that we might present ourselves as an example to you, in order to imitate us.
10. Then, too, while we were with you, we insisted on this to you: that if anyone was not willing to work, neither should he eat.
11. For we have heard that there are some among you who act disruptively, not working at all, but eagerly meddling.
12. Now we charge those who act in this way, and we beg them in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work in silence and eat their own bread.
13. And you, brothers, do not grow weak in doing good.
14. But if anyone does not obey our word by this epistle, take note of him and do not keep company with him, so that he may be ashamed.
15. But do not be willing to consider him as an enemy; instead, correct him as a brother.
16. Then may the Lord of peace himself give you an everlasting peace, in every place. May the Lord be with all of you.
17. The greeting of Paul with my own hand, which is the seal in every epistle. So do I write.
18. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

## 2 Thessalonians 3 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. De cetero fratres, orate pro nobis ut sermo Dei currat, et clarificetur, sicut et apud vos:
2. et ut liberemur ab importunis, et malis hominibus: non enim omnium est fides.
3. Fidelis autem Deus est, qui confirmabit vos, et custodiet a malo.
4. Confidimus autem de vobis, in Domino, quoniam quæ præcepimus, et facitis, et facietis.
5. Dominus autem dirigat corda vestra in caritate Dei, et patientia Christi.
6. Denuntiamus autem vobis, fratres, in nomine Domini nostri Jesu Christi, ut subtrahatis vos ab omni fratre ambulante inordinate, et non secundum traditionem, quam acceperunt a nobis.
7. Ipsi enim scitis quemadmodum oporteat imitari nos: quoniam non inquieti fuimus inter vos:
8. neque gratis panem manducavimus ab aliquo, sed in labore, et in fatigatione, nocte et die operantes, ne quem vestrum gravaremus.
9. Non quasi non habuerimus potestatem, sed ut nosmetipsos formam daremus vobis ad imitandum nos.
10. Nam et cum essemus apud vos, hoc denuntiabamus vobis: quoniam si quis non vult operari, nec manducet.
11. Audivimus enim inter vos quosdam ambulare inquiete, nihil operantes, sed curiose agentes.
12. Iis autem, qui ejusmodi sunt, denuntiemus, et obsecramus in Domino Jesu Christo, ut cum silentio operantes, suum panem manducent.
13. Vos autem, fratres, nolite deficere benefacientes.
14. Quod si quis non obedit verbo nostro per epistolam, hunc notate, et ne commisceamini cum illo ut confundatur:
15. et nolite quasi inimicum existimare, sed corripite ut fratrem.
16. Ipse autem Dominus pacis det vobis pacem sempiternam in omni loco. Dominus sit cum omnibus vobis.
17. Salutatio, mea manu Pauli: quod est signum in omni epistola, ita scribo.
18. Gratia Domini nostri Jesu Christi cum omnibus vobis. Amen.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 2830: "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2427: Economic Activity and Social Justice ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: That is, may spread itself, and have free course.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Wed, Aug 30, 2028 (computed): Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, 2 Thessalonians 3:6-10, 16-18
- Sun, Nov 12, 2028 (computed): Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time — Second Reading, 2 Thessalonians 2:16—3:5
- Sun, Nov 19, 2028 (computed): Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time — Second Reading, 2 Thessalonians 3:7-12

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).