What Does 2 Thessalonians 3:13 Mean in the King James?

But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

2 Thessalonians 3:13 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

“Well doing” is the making of what is good and fitting, so weariness can touch the doer without making the good worthless.

THE MEANING

The verse addresses you as kin amid ongoing good work, naming that work as what is good and fitting. Weariness may press against it, but it is not evidence that the work has lost its worth.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The lie this undoes is that fatigue proves your good work has become pointless.

THE ROOT

καλοποιοῦντες

kalopoiountes

GROWS FROM

ποιέω

poieō

To make, do, or bring about; joined here with ⁨καλός⁩ (kalos), meaning good, fine, beautiful, or fitting.

“well doing” in this verse is kalopoiountes. The Greek word joins kalos, “good” or “beautiful,” with poieō, “make” or “do.” Good-doing is pictured as bringing forth what is fitting; the verb’s family also names both what is made and the one who makes it.

ALSO GROWS

poiēma: A thing made; workmanship.

ποίημα

This branch makes the action concrete: good is something brought forth, not merely a quality named.

poiētēs: A maker or doer.

ποιητής

The same root names the one who acts, keeping the verse’s focus on ongoing, embodied work.

THE PATTERN

Good takes shape through acts that continue before their fruit is visible.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Galatians 6:9 · KJVIt pairs continued good-doing with a harvest that arrives in its season.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Psalm 126:5 · KJVThe sowing happens before the joy of the harvest is visible.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:58 · KJVIt names ongoing work as meaningful even when its result is not yet in view.

THE THREAD

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Galatians 6:9 · KJV

The Greek shares the verb family for growing weary and the good-doing roots kalos and poieō. Galatians adds the harvest: the work continues through a season before its fruit appears.

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