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2 Thessalonians 3:9
“not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.”
Verse in context — 2 Thessalonians 3
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For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn't behave ourselves rebelliously among you,
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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;
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not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
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For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.
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For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.
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