10 For even when we were with you, we laid down this rule for you:»If a man does not choose to work, neither shall he eat.«

11 For we hear that there are some of you who live disorderly lives and are mere idle busybodies.

12 To persons of that sort our injunction –and our command by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ– is that they are to work quietly and eat their own honestly-earned bread.

13 But you, brethren, must not grow weary in the path of duty;