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Kehilah In Thessalonika 2 3:2-9 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

2. And that we may be delivered from anshei resha (men of wickedness), for not all possess the Messianic emunah.

3. But Ne'eman (Faithful) is Hashem who gives you chozek (strength) and is shomer over you, guarding you from the Evil One.

4. And we have bitachon in Hashem concerning you, that you are doing and will continue to do what we have directed.

5. Now may Hashem direct your levavot in the Ahavas Hashem and into the zitzfleisch of Moshiach.

6. Now we charge you, Achim b'Moshiach, b'Shem Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, to shun chavrusashaft (association) with every one of the Achim b'Moshiach who follows the derech habatlanim (way of idlers) and walks not according to Moshiach's [pnimiyus] haTorah that was handed over and transmitted to you and which you received from us [Shlichim].

7. For you yourselves have da'as how it is necessary to imitate us as a mofet, a role model, because we [Shlichim] were not batlanim (idlers) among you.

8. Nor did we eat lechem (food) from anyone gratis, but in labor and exertion lailah v'yomam (night and day) we were working for the tachlis (purpose) of not weighing down and burdening any one of you;

9. Not because we do not have the zchus (right), but in order that we impart ourselves as a mofet (role model) to you that you might imitate us.

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