5 I pray that the Lord will guide you to be as loving as God and as patient as Christ.
6 My dear friends, in the name of the Lord Jesus, I beg you not to have anything to do with any of your people who loaf around and refuse to obey the instructions we gave you.
7 You surely know that you should follow our example. We didn't waste our time loafing,
8 and we didn't accept food from anyone without paying for it. We didn't want to be a burden to any of you, so night and day we worked as hard as we could.
9 We had the right not to work, but we wanted to set an example for you.
10 We also gave you this rule: If you don't work, you don't eat.
11 Now we learn that some of you just loaf around and won't do any work, except the work of a busybody.