Commentary:
I. Salutation (1:1-2)
II. Thanksgiving and Prayer (1:3-12)
III. Second Coming of Christ (2:1-17)
IV. Prayer for Evangelism and Deliverance (3:1-5)
V. Command against Idleness (3:6-12)
A. Command on Idleness and Tradition (3:6)
B. Tradition and Imitation (3:7-10)
C. Exhortation against Idleness (3:11-12)
VI. Conclusion (3:13-18)
7a. For you know how you ought to imitate us.
7b-8. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you, neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.
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9. This was not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
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10. For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”
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