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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Finally, brothers, pray for us—that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly, and that it may be honored the way it is among you. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Also pray that we may be rescued from worthless and evil people, since not everyone holds to the faith. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But the Lord is faithful and will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4We have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do what we command. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the endurance of the Messiah. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6In the name of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, we command you, brothers, to keep away from every brother who is living in idleness and not living according to the tradition that they received from us. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7For you yourselves know what you must do to imitate us. We never lived in idleness among you. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8We did not eat anyone's food without paying for it. Instead, with toil and labor we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9It is not as though we did not have that right, but we wanted to give you an example to follow. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10While we were with you, we gave this order: "If anyone doesn't want to work, he shouldn't eat." |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11We hear that some of you are living in idleness. You are not busy working —you are busy interfering in other people's lives! |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12We order and encourage such people by the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, to do their work quietly and to earn their own living. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Brothers, do not get tired of doing what is right. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of him. Have nothing to do with him so that he will feel ashamed. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Yet, don't treat him like an enemy, but warn him like a brother. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Now may the Lord of peace give you his peace at all times and in every way. May the Lord be with all of you. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I, Paul, am writing this greeting with my own hand. This is the mark in every letter of mine. It is the way I write. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18May the grace of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be with all of you. Amen. |
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