2 Tesalonicenses 3:7

7 Pues vosotros mismos sabéis cómo debéis seguir nuestro ejemplo, porque no obramos de manera indisciplinada entre vosotros,

2 Tesalonicenses 3:7 Meaning and Commentary

2 Thessalonians 3:7

For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us
The apostle goes on to dissuade from that which denominates persons disorderly walkers, and exposes them to the censure of the church, and that partly by the example of the apostles, and partly by their command. He appeals to them, to their knowledge and judgment, it being a thing well known to them, that they ought to walk as they had the apostles for ensamples; for who should they follow but their spiritual fathers, shepherds, and guides? and especially so far as they were followers of Christ, as they were, in the case referred unto, working with their own hands:

for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
they could appeal to them as witnesses, and God also, how holily, justly, and unblamably they walked among them; see ( 1 Thessalonians 2:10 ) and particularly, that they did not live an idle and inactive life among them.

2 Tesalonicenses 3:7 In-Context

5 Que el Señor dirija vuestros corazones hacia el amor de Dios y hacia la perseverancia de Cristo.

6 Ahora bien, hermanos, os mandamos en el nombre de nuestro Señor Jesucristo, que os apartéis de todo hermano que ande desordenadamente, y no según la doctrina que recibisteis de nosotros.

7 Pues vosotros mismos sabéis cómo debéis seguir nuestro ejemplo, porque no obramos de manera indisciplinada entre vosotros,

8 ni comimos de balde el pan de nadie, sino que con trabajo y fatiga trabajamos día y noche a fin de no ser carga a ninguno de vosotros;

9 no porque no tengamos derecho a ello, sino para ofrecernos como modelo a vosotros a fin de que sigáis nuestro ejemplo.