3. But the Lord is faithful and will give you strength and protect you from the evil one.
4. We are confident about you in the Lord—that you are doing and will keep doing what we tell you to do.
5. May the Lord lead your hearts to express God’s love and Christ’s endurance.
6. Brothers and sisters, we command you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to stay away from every brother or sister who lives an undisciplined life that is not in line with the traditions that you received from us.
7. You yourselves know how you need to imitate us because we were not undisciplined when we were with you.
8. We didn’t eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, we worked night and day with effort and hard work so that we would not impose on you.
9. We did this to give you an example to imitate, not because we didn’t have a right to insist on financial support.
10. Even when we were with you we were giving you this command: "If anyone doesn’t want to work, they shouldn’t eat."