2 Thessalonians 3:7-18
3:7 For you know yourselves how you must imitate us, because we did not behave without discipline
among you,
3:8 and we did not eat anyone’s food without paying.
Instead, in toil and drudgery we worked
night and day in order not to burden any of you.
3:9 It was not because we do not have that right, but to give ourselves as an example for you to imitate.
3:10 For even when we were with you, we used to give you this command: “If anyone is not willing to work, neither should he eat.”
3:11 For we hear that some among you are living an undisciplined life,
not doing their own work but meddling in the work of others.
3:12 Now such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and so provide their own food to eat.
3:13 But you, brothers and sisters,
do not grow weary in doing what is right.
3:14 But if anyone does not obey our message through this letter, take note of him and do not associate closely with him, so that he may be ashamed.
3:15 Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
Conclusion
3:16 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with you all.
3:17 I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand, which is how I write in every letter.
3:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.