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For you know yourselves how you must imitate us, because we did not behave without discipline[a] among you, and we did not eat anyone’s food without paying.[b] Instead, in toil and drudgery we worked[c] night and day in order not to burden any of you. It was not because we do not have that right, but to give ourselves as an example for you to imitate.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 3:7 tn This is the verbal form of the words occurring in vv. 6 and 11, meaning “to act out of line, in an unruly way.”
  2. 2 Thessalonians 3:8 tn Grk “we did not eat bread freely from anyone.”
  3. 2 Thessalonians 3:8 tn Grk “but working,” as a continuation of the previous sentence. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started with the word “Instead” in the translation.
  4. 2 Thessalonians 3:9 tn Grk “an example for you to imitate us.”