For you yourselves know how you should imitate us: We were not idle among you;
Now we command you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from every brother or sister who is idle and does not live according to the tradition received from us.
It is not that we don’t have the right to support, but we did it to make ourselves an example to you so that you would imitate us.
Therefore I urge you to imitate me.
Imitate me, as I also imitate Christ.
Join in imitating me, brothers and sisters, and pay careful attention to those who live according to the example you have in us.
in everything. Make yourself an example of good works with integrity and dignity in your teaching.
Don’t let anyone despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, , in faith, and in purity.
You are witnesses, and so is God, of how devoutly, righteously, and blamelessly we conducted ourselves with you believers.
Do what you have learned and received and heard from me, and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.
not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.
And we exhort you, brothers and sisters: warn those who are idle, comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient with everyone.
She sees that her profits are good, and her lamp never goes out at night.