November 17, 2013, Second Reading

Second Letter to the Thessalonians 3: 7-12

3:7 For you yourselves know the manner in which you ought to imitate us. For we were not disorderly among you.3:8 Nor did we eat bread from anyone for free, but rather, we worked night and day, in hardship and weariness, so as not to be burdensome to you.

3:9 It was not as if we had no authority, but this was so that we might present ourselves as an example to you, in order to imitate us.

3:10 Sau đó, cũng vậy, while we were with you, we insisted on this to you: that if anyone was not willing to work, neither should he eat.

3:11 For we have heard that there are some among you who act disruptively, not working at all, but eagerly meddling.

3:12 Now we charge those who act in this way, and we beg them in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work in silence and eat their own bread.