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1 Thessalonians 5:14 (WEB)
We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

Fathers and councils · 7

Tertullian, De Fuga in Persecutione Chapter 1
“Paul bids us support the weak, but most certainly it is not when they flee.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. v. 14.
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Origen, De Principiis IV.1Book IV
“…which are found in the writings of the Apostle Paul, “Warn them that are unruly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be patient towards all men,” and very many others.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. v. 14.
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Origen, De Principiis IV.2Book IV
“…of the apostle the literal sense is to be retained: “Warn them that are unruly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be patient towards all men;” although it is possible for those ambitious of a deeper meaning to retain the profundities of the wisdom of God, without setting aside the commandment in its…” — editor's note: 1 Thess. v. 14.
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Hebrews Homily 6
“This he says also in writing to the Thessalonians, “Warn them that are unruly” ( 1 Thess. v. 14 ), but in speaking of the feeble-minded, not so, but what?” — the author cites it
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Theodoret of Cyrus, Letters Letter 78
“And let us not, I beseech you, heed only ourselves, let us rather have forethought for the rest, and that much more for the sick than for the whole, for it is an apostolic precept which exclaims “Comfort the feeble minded, support the weak.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. v. 14
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XV.6Book XV
“See that none render evil for evil unto any man.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. v. 14, 15.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor III.12Book III
“Abstain from every form of evil.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. v. 13–15, 19–22.
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