10 For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: (A)If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. 11 For we hear that some among you (B)walk in idleness, not busy at work, but (C)busybodies. 12 Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.[a]

13 As for you, brothers, (D)do not grow weary in doing good. 14 If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and (E)have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed. 15 (F)Do not regard him as an enemy, but (G)warn him as a brother.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 3:12 Greek to eat their own bread

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