2 Thessalonians 3

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Final y, brothers, pray for us that the Lord's message may spread quickly, and be received with honouras it was among you;	1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
2 and pray that we may be preserved from bigoted and evil people, for not everyone has faith.	2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
3 You can rely on the Lord, who wil give you strength and guard you from the evil One,	3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
4 and we, in the Lord, have every confidence in you, that you are doing and wil go on doing al that wetel you.	4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.
5 May the Lord turn your hearts towards the love of God and the perseverance of Christ.	5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
6 In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we urge you, brothers, to keep away from any of the brothers wholives an undisciplined life, not in accordance with the tradition you received from us.	6 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.
7 You know how you should take us as your model: we were not undisciplined when we were with you,	7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
8 nor did we ever accept food from anyone without paying for it; no, we worked with unsparing energy,night and day, so as not to be a burden on any of you.	8 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:
9 This was not because we had no right to be, but in order to make ourselves a model for you to imitate.	9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
10 We urged you when we were with you not to let anyone eat who refused to work.	10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
11 Now we hear that there are some of you who are living lives without any discipline, doing no workthemselves but interfering with other people's.	11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
12 In the Lord Jesus Christ, we urge and cal on people of this kind to go on quietly working and earningthe food that they eat.	12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
13 My brothers, never slacken in doing what is right.	13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
14 If anyone refuses to obey what I have written in this letter, take note of him and have nothing to dowith him, so that he wil be ashamed of himself,	14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
15 though you are not to treat him as an enemy, but to correct him as a brother.	15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
16 May the Lord of peace himself give you peace at al times and in every way. The Lord be with you all.	16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.
17 This greeting is in my own hand-PAUL. It is the mark of genuineness in every letter; this is my own writing.	17 The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write.
18 May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.	18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.