2 Thessalonians 3:7
“For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;”
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
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;
Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
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Related Verses
“Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.”
“Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:”
“That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.”
“As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,”
“For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.”