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As for the other matters,  our fellow believers, pray for us that more and more  people will hear PRS our message  about our Lord  Jesus. Pray that they will believe this message, as you  have done. 
Pray also for us that we will be rescued {that God will rescue us} from those very perverse/evil people  here who  cause us to suffer. Pray like that because  they and many others refuse to believe LIT  this message. 
 Remember that our Lord  Jesus is trustworthy!  So we are sure that he will cause you to continue to be steadfast.  We are also sure that he will protect you from  Satan, the evil one (OR, from evil). 
 Because of your close relationship with our Lord  Jesus, we are confident that you are obeying what we have commanded you, and we are confident that you will obey what we are commanding  you in this letter. 
 We pray that our Lord  Jesus would enable you to continue  knowing that God loves you.  We pray also that Christ will cause you to continue  being steadfast (OR, being steadfast as he  was steadfast). 
 Our fellow believers, we command you, with the authority MTY that our Lord Jesus Christ  has given to us, that you stop associating with every fellow believer who is lazy and refuses to work. That is, you must stay away from those who are not conducting their lives in the manner that we taught you. 
 We tell you this because you yourselves know that you should  behave like we  behaved. We ◄did not just sit  around without working/were never lazy►  while we were living among you. 
Specifically, we did not eat anyone’s food if we did not pay  that person for it. Instead, we worked very hard ◄ to support ourselves/to earn the money to buy what we needed►. We worked hard DOU during the day and during the night, in order that we would not have to depend on any of you  to supply what we needed. 
We have always had the right  to depend on you for money, but instead we worked hard in order to make ourselves examples for you, in order that you should behave like we behave. 
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. 
 We are commanding the same thing again now, because someone has told us that some of you are lazy and not working at all, just interfering  with what other people are doing! 
We command those fellow believers who are not working, and urge  them by the authority MTY of our Lord Jesus Christ, that they settle down and ◄support themselves by working/work to earn money to buy what they need►. 
Fellow believers! Do not ever get tired of doing what is right! 
If any  fellow believer refuses to work and does not obey what I have written in this letter, ◄ publicly identify that person/tell the congregation what that person is doing►. Then do not associate with him, in order that he may become ashamed. 
Do not think of him as though he was  your enemy; instead, warn him as  you would warn your other fellow believers. 
 I pray that our Lord  Jesus himself, who  gives inner peace  to his people, will give  inner peace to you always ◄and in every situation/whatever happens►. 2 Thessalonians 3:16b-18 I  pray that our Lord  Jesus will continue to help you all. 
Now, having taken the pen from my scribe, I, Paul, am sending this greeting to you as I write this myself SYN. 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. 
I pray that our Lord Jesus Christ will continue to act kindly to you all.