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8 Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nothing: but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any 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 as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imitate 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, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not 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 have heard there are some among you who walk disorderly: working not at all, but curiously meddling.
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We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies.
12 Now we charge them that are such and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with silence, they would 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 you, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
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And as for you, brothers and sisters, never tire of doing what is good.
14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed.
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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 Yet 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 Now the Lord of peace himself give you everlasting peace in every place. 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 of Paul with my own hand: which is the sign in every epistle. 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. Amen.
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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
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