BWE - II Thessalonians - 3

3:1  My brothers, please talk to God about us. Ask God that the Lord’s message may reach many people quickly and that they may receive it gladly as you did.

3:2  Ask God that we may be saved from bad people who do wrong things. Not everyone believes in Christ.

3:3  But the Lord can be trusted. He will make you strong. He will keep you safe from all that is wrong.

3:4  The Lord makes us feel sure about you. We are sure that you are doing, and will do, what we tell you to do.

3:5  May the Lord lead you to love God and be patient like Christ.

3:6  Now, my brothers, we tell you to do this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Have nothing to do with any lazy brother who is not living the way we taught you.

3:7  You yourselves know how you should be like us. We were not lazy when we were with you.

3:8  We did not eat anyone’s food without paying for it. But we worked very hard day and night because we did not want to trouble any one of you.

3:9  We have the right to be helped. But we wanted to show you what you should do in this matter.

3:10  Even when we were with you, we told you this, ‘If any man will not work, do not let him eat.’

3:11  We hear that some of you are lazy. You do not work, but you trouble other people.

3:12  We say to such lazy people, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, ‘Do your work quietly. Earn your own food.’

3:13  My brothers, do not get tired of doing what is good.

3:14  If any one will not obey what we say in this letter, look at that man and remember him. Have nothing to do with him, so that he will be ashamed.

3:15  Do not treat him like an enemy. Tell him, as you would tell a brother, what he should do.

3:16  The Lord gives peace. May he give his peace to you at all times in every way. May the Lord be with you all.

3:17  I, Paul, write these words of greeting with my own hand. This is the sign in all my letters that I wrote them.

3:18  The loving kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.