2 Thessalonians 3

1 As to the rest, pray ye, brethren, concerning us, that the word of the Lord may run and may be glorified, as also with you,

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, just as it was with you.

2 and that we may be delivered from the unreasonable and evil men, for the faith [is] not of all;

And pray that we may be rescued from deviant and evil men, for not all have faith.

3 and stedfast is the Lord, who shall establish you, and shall guard [you] from the evil;

But the Lord is faithful; he will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

4 and we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that the things that we command you ye both do and will do;

We have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will continue to do what we command you.

5 and the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and the steadfastness of Christ.

6 And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from every brother who walks in idleness and does not live according to the teaching we passed on to them.

7 for yourselves have known how it behoveth [you] to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you;

For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you,

8 nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;

nor did we eat bread from anyone free of charge. On the contrary, with labor and hardship we worked day and night so as not to be a burden to any of you.

9 not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

We did this, not because we do not have the right to be supported, but to present ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

10 for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is not willing to work, neither should he eat.”

11 for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,

For we hear that some among you are walking in idleness, not working at all, but being busybodies.

12 and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;

Now we command and exhort such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and eat their own bread.

13 and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,

But as for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.

14 and if any one do not obey our word through the letter, this one note ye, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed,

If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of him and do not associate with him, so that he will feel ashamed.

15 and as an enemy count [him] not, but admonish ye [him] as a brother;

Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

16 and may the Lord of the peace Himself give to you the peace always in every way; the Lord [is] with you all!

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with you all.

17 The salutation by the hand of me, Paul, which is a sign in every letter; thus I write;

I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. This is the distinguishing mark in all my letters; it is the way I write.

18 the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [is] with you all! Amen.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.