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Not as we had not power, but that we should give us selves [but that we should give ourselves] [an] ensample to you to follow us.

10 For also when we were among you, we commanded this thing to you [For why and when we were with you, this thing we announced, or warned, to you], that if any man will not work, neither eat he.

11 For we have heard that some among you go unrestfully, and nothing work, but do curiously.[a]

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  1. 2 Thessalonians 3:11 Soothly we have heard some among you to wander unquietly, or unpeaceably, nothing working, but doing curiously.

We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help,(A) but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate.(B) 10 For even when we were with you,(C) we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work(D) shall not eat.”

11 We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies.(E)

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