¹For the rest, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as also with you; ²and that we may be delivered from bad and evil men, for faith is not the portion of all. ³But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you and keep you from evil. ⁴But we trust in the Lord as to you, that the things which we enjoin, ye both do and will do. ⁵But the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of the Christ.

⁶Now we enjoin you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the instruction which he received from us. ⁷For ye know yourselves how ye ought to imitate us, because we have not walked disorderly among you; ⁸nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to any one of you: ⁹not that we have not the right, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us. ¹⁰For also when we were with you we enjoined you this, that if any man does not like to work, neither let him eat. ¹¹For we hear that there are some walking among you disorderly, not working at all, but busybodies. ¹²Now such we enjoin and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that working quietly they eat their own bread. ¹³But ye, brethren, do not faint in well-doing. ¹⁴But if any one obey not our word by the letter, mark that man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed of himself; ¹⁵and do not esteem him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

¹⁶But the Lord of peace himself give you peace continually in every way. The Lord be with you all. ¹⁷The salutation by the hand of me, Paul, which is the mark in every letter; so I write. ¹⁸The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

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