[a]For ye yourselves know, (A)how ye ought to follow us: (B)for we behaved not ourselves inordinately among you,

Neither took we bread of any man for nought: but we wrought with labor and travail night and day, because we would not be chargeable to any of you.

Not because we have not authority, but that we might make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 3:7 Lest he might seem to deal harshly with them, he setteth forth himself as an example, who besides his travail in preaching labored with his hands, which he saith he was not simply bound to do.

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