2 Thessalonians 3:7-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ For yourselves know how you ought to imitate us: for we were not disorderly among you;

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.

⁹ Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imitate us.