2 Thessalonians 3:8-13

New King James Version

⁸ nor did we eat anyone’s bread ^[a]free of charge, but worked with ^(A)labor and toil night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, ⁹ not because we do not have ^(B)authority, but to make ourselves an example of how you should follow us.

¹⁰ For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. ¹¹ For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are ^(C)busybodies. ¹² Now those who are such we command and ^[b]exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ ^(D)that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.

¹³ But as for you, brethren, ^(E)do not grow weary in doing good.