The Darby Translation DBY
New International Version NIV
8 nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to any one of you:
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nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
9 not that we have not the right, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.
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We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate.
10 For also when we were with you we enjoined you this, that if any man does not like to work, neither let him eat.
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For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”
11 For we hear that [there are] some walking among you disorderly, not working at all, but busybodies.
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We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies.
12 Now such we enjoin and exhort in [the] Lord Jesus Christ, that working quietly they eat their own bread.
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Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the food they eat.
13 But *ye*, brethren, do not faint in well-doing.
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And as for you, brothers and sisters, never tire of doing what is good.
14 But if any one obey not our word by the letter, mark that man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed of himself;
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Take special note of anyone who does not obey our instruction in this letter. Do not associate with them, in order that they may feel ashamed.
15 and do not esteem him as an enemy, but admonish [him] as a brother.
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Yet do not regard them as an enemy, but warn them as you would a fellow believer.
16 But the Lord of peace himself give you peace continually in every way. The Lord [be] with you all.
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Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you.
17 The salutation by the hand of me, Paul, which is [the] mark in every letter; so I write.
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I, Paul, write this greeting in my own hand, which is the distinguishing mark in all my letters. This is how I write.
18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all.
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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
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