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What does 2 Thessalonians 3:11 mean?
"For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies."
— 2 Thessalonians 3:11 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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;
not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, don’t let him eat.”
For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.
Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.
If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
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