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Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.

Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.

Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.