2 Thessalonians 3:7-9 New English Translation (NET)

7. For you know yourselves how you must imitate us, because we did not behave without discipline among you,

8. and we did not eat anyone’s food without paying. Instead, in toil and drudgery we worked night and day in order not to burden any of you.

9. It was not because we do not have that right, but to give ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

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