11 For we hear that some among you (A)walk in idleness, not busy at work, but (B)busybodies. 12 Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.[a]

13 As for you, brothers, (C)do not grow weary in doing good.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 3:12 Greek to eat their own bread

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