Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

Surely you recall that I used to tell you these things while I was still with you.

For you know yourselves how you must imitate us, because we did not behave without discipline among you,

For we hear that some among you are living an undisciplined life, not doing their own work but meddling in the work of others.

It was not because we do not have that right, but to give ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.

that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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.”

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with you all.

As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.

But we command you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who lives an undisciplined life and not according to the tradition they received from us.