7. You yourselves know that you should live like we do. We were not lazy when we were with you.
8. We never accepted food from anyone without paying for it. We worked and worked so that we would not be a burden to any of you. We worked night and day.
9. We had the right to ask you to help us. But we worked to take care of ourselves so that we would be an example for you to follow.
10. When we were with you, we gave you this rule: “Whoever will not work should not be allowed to eat.”
11. We hear that some people in your group refuse to work. They are doing nothing except being busy in the lives of others.
12. Our instruction to them is to stop bothering others, to start working and earn their own food. It is by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ that we are urging them to do this.