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.”

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.

And in this regard we pray for you always, that our God will make you worthy of his calling and fulfill by his power your every desire for goodness and every work of faith,

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

Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.