<p>5:14 <i>And we exhort you, brothers, warn the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all</i>- Despite knowing there were such within the church, Paul wrote so highly of them and spoke so positively of them before God (1:2,3). He saw them as &quot;in Christ&quot; and shared the Lord's view of imputed righteousness towards them. They were all exhorted to do the work of warning, encouraging and supporting; unless &quot;brothers&quot; refers specifically to the eldership. But the context is of Paul addressing the entire church membership, and he uses &quot;brothers&quot; specifically about them rather than about the eldership (:12,13). Being a member of the body of Christ means we are to take responsibility for others, and not resign it all to the eldership. The 'warning' of the disorderly was presumably with the consequence of temporary exclusion from the local congregation; for that is the consequence advised by Paul for &quot;the disorderly&quot; in 2 Thess. 3. The fainthearted were presumably those who struggled to believe the great truths explained in :8 and :9, that we really can be sure that we shall be saved if the Lord returns right now. See on :11. The allusion is to Is. 35:3,4, where in the context of a vision of the Kingdom, the weak minded are urged to believe it as wonderfully true for them. Being &quot;longsuffering&quot; may allude to the parable of Mt. 18:26,29, where those indebted to us beg for &quot;longsuffering&quot;, and we are to frankly forgive as the Lord has forgiven us. This idea is continued in :15.</p>