2 Thessalonians 3:2
Good News Translation
Pray also that God will rescue us from wicked and evil people; for not everyone believes the message.

New Revised Standard Version
and that we may be rescued from wicked and evil people; for not all have faith.

Contemporary English Version
Pray that we may be kept safe from worthless and evil people. After all, not everyone has faith.

New American Bible
and that we may be delivered from perverse and wicked people, for not all have faith.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And that we may be delivered from importunate and evil men: for all men have not faith.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And that we may be delivered from importunate and evil men: for all men have not faith.

delivered.

Romans 15:31 That I may be delivered from the unbelievers that are in Judea and that the oblation of my service may be acceptable in Jerusalem to the saints.

1 Corinthians 15:32 If (according to man) I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for to morrow we shall die.

2 Corinthians 1:8-10 For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation which came to us in Asia: that we were pressed out of measure above our strength, so that we were weary even of life. . . .

1 Thessalonians 2:18 For we would have come unto you, I Paul indeed, once and again: but Satan hath hindered us.

2 Timothy 4:17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that by me the preaching may be accomplished and that all the Gentiles may hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

unreasonable.

Deuteronomy 32:20 And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.

Matthew 17:17 And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and the child was cured from that hour.

Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint and anise and cummin and have left the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. These things you ought to have done and not to leave those undone.

Luke 18:8 I say to you that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?

John 2:23-25 Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the pasch, upon the festival day, many believed in his name, seeing his signs which he did. . . .

Acts 13:45,50 And the Jews, seeing the multitudes, were filled with envy and contradicted those things which were said by Paul, blaspheming. . . .

Acts 14:2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up and incensed the minds of the Gentiles against the brethren.

Acts 17:5 But the Jews, moved with envy and taking unto them some wicked men of the vulgar sort and making a tumult, set the city in an uproar: and besetting Jason's house, sought to bring them out unto the people.

Acts 28:24 And some believed the things that were said: but some believed not.

Romans 10:16 But all do not obey the gospel. For Isaias saith: Lord, who hath believed our report?

2 Corinthians 4:3,4 And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost, . . .

Context
Request for Prayer
1For the rest, brethren, pray for us that the word of God may run and may be glorified, even as among you: 2And that we may be delivered from importunate and evil men: for all men have not faith. 3But God is faithful, who will strengthen and keep you from evil.…
Cross References
Acts 25:27
For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not to signify the things laid to his charge.

Romans 15:31
That I may be delivered from the unbelievers that are in Judea and that the oblation of my service may be acceptable in Jerusalem to the saints.

2 Thessalonians 3:1
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