For you yourselves know how you ought to [a](A)follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined way among you, nor did we (B)eat [b]anyone’s bread [c]without paying for it, but with (C)labor and hardship we kept (D)working night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you; not because we do not have (E)the right to this, but in order to offer ourselves (F)as a role model for you, so that you would [d]follow our example.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 3:7 Or imitate us
  2. 2 Thessalonians 3:8 Lit from anyone
  3. 2 Thessalonians 3:8 Lit freely
  4. 2 Thessalonians 3:9 Or imitate us

For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example.(A) We were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked(B) night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help,(C) but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate.(D)

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For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:

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

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