^{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.