1. Finally, pray for us, brothers and sisters, that the Lord’s message may spread quickly and be honored as in fact it was among you,
2. and that we may be delivered from perverse and evil people. For not all have faith.
3. But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.
4. And we are confident about you in the Lord that you are both doing – and will do – what we are commanding.
5. Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God and the endurance of Christ.
6. But we command you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who lives an undisciplined life and not according to the tradition they received from us.
7. For you know yourselves how you must imitate us, because we did not behave without discipline among you,
8. and we did not eat anyone’s food without paying. Instead, in toil and drudgery we worked night and day in order not to burden any of you.
9. It was not because we do not have that right, but to give ourselves as an example for you to imitate.