Topic
Disorderly
6 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:11ISBE
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
- 1 Thessalonians 4:12ISBE
That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:14ISBE
Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:6ISBE
Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:7ISBE
For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
- 2 Thessalonians 3:11ISBE
For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 6 references
dis-or'-der-li (ataktos): The word is found four times in the Epistles to the Thess (1Th 5:14; 2Th 3:6,7,11), "Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly."; "We behaved not ourselves disorderly."; "We hear of some that walk among you disorderly." The word is a military term and has reference to the soldier who does not keep the ranks (inordinatus, Liv). Then it refers to people who refuse to obey the civil laws, and thus it gets its meaning, "disorderly." It points to members in the early church, who, by their lives, became a reproach to the gospel of Christ (compare 1Th 4:11,12).
Henry E. Dosker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.