2Th 3:13 | RWP | e4.org | But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing ( υμεις δε, αδελφοι, μη ενκακησητε καλοποιουντες ). Emphatic position of υμεις in contrast to these piddlers. Μη and the aorist subjunctive is a prohibition against beginning an act (Robertson, Grammar , pp. 851-4). It is a late verb and means to behave badly in, to be cowardly, to lose courage, to flag, to faint, ( εν, κακος ) and outside of in the N.T. is only in Paul's Epistles ( ; , ; ; ). It occurs in Polybius. The late verb καλοποιεω , to do the fair ( καλος ) or honourable thing occurs nowhere else in the N.T., but is in the LXX and a late papyrus. Paul uses το καλον ποιειν in ; ; with the same idea. He has αγαθοποιεω , to do good, in .

‏ 2 Thessalonians 3:13

But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing ( υμεις δε, αδελφοι, μη ενκακησητε καλοποιουντες ). Emphatic position of υμεις in contrast to these piddlers. Μη and the aorist subjunctive is a prohibition against beginning an act (Robertson, Grammar, pp. 851-4). It is a late verb and means to behave badly in, to be cowardly, to lose courage, to flag, to faint, ( εν, κακος ) and outside of Lu 18:1 in the N.T. is only in Paul's Epistles (2Th 3:13; 2Co 4:1, 16; Ga 6:9; Eph 3:13). It occurs in Polybius. The late verb καλοποιεω, to do the fair ( καλος ) or honourable thing occurs nowhere else in the N.T., but is in the LXX and a late papyrus. Paul uses το καλον ποιειν in 2Co 13:7; Ga 6:9; Ro 7:21 with the same idea. He has αγαθοποιεω, to do good, in 1Ti 6:18.