^{7 Ref} For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn't behave ourselves rebelliously among you,

^{8 Ref} neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;

^{9 Ref} not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

^{10 Ref} For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."

^{11 Ref} For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.

^{12 Ref} Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.