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3 This is the last part of what I want to say. Our fellow believers, pray for us that many more people will soon hear the message about our Lord Jesus and honor it, just as you have done. 2 Pray also for us that God will keep the many evil people from harming us. As you know, most people are not faithful to the Lord.
3 Nevertheless, the Lord Jesus is faithful to you! He will make you strong spiritually and he will protect you from Satan, the evil one. 4 Because you are joined to our Lord Jesus, we are also confident that you are now obeying what we have commanded you, and that you will obey what we are commanding you in this letter. 5 We pray that our Lord Jesus would continue to help you to experience how much God loves you as well as to experience the endurance that the Messiah will give you.
6 Our fellow believers, accept what we say now as if our Lord Jesus the Messiah himself were saying this: we command you to stop associating with every fellow believer who is lazy and refuses to work. These people are not living in the way that Jesus taught us and that we in turn have taught you. 7 We tell you this because you yourselves know that you should behave just as we behaved. We did not just sit there without working while we were living among you. 8 That is to say, we did not eat anyone’s food if we did not pay for it. Instead, we worked very hard all the time to support ourselves. We did that so that we would not have to depend on any of you for what we needed. 9 God has certainly authorized us to receive what we need from his people. But instead of demanding things from you, we worked hard so that you could see how God wants his people to live, and then you could live in just the same way. 10 Remember that when we were there with you, we kept commanding you that if any fellow believer refuses to work, you should not give him food to eat. 11 Now we tell you this again, because people have told us that some of you are lazy and not working at all. Not only that, but some of you are interfering with what other people are doing.
12 Accept what we say now as if the Lord Jesus the Messiah himself were saying this: We command and urge those fellow believers who are not working to mind their own business and to work so that they have what they need to live.
13 As for you fellow believers who are working hard, do not ever get tired of doing what is right!
14 If any fellow believer does not obey what we have written in this letter, publicly identify that person. Then do not associate with him, in order that he may become ashamed that he is not working. 15 Do not think of him as though he were your enemy; instead, warn him as you would warn your other fellow believers.
16 I pray that our Lord, who is the only one who can truly make anyone peaceful, will make you peaceful in every way and in all situations.
I pray that our Lord Jesus will continue to help you all. 17 Now I have taken the pen from my scribe, and I, Paul, am sending this greeting to you as I write this myself. I do this in all my letters in order that you may know that it is truly I who have sent this letter. This is how I always end my letters. 18 I pray that our Lord Jesus the Messiah will continue to act kindly to you all.