2 Thessalonians 3:7-9 Yourselves for know, now it behooves to imitate us; because not we were disorderly among you,

Diaglott⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ Yourselves for know, now it behooves to imitate us; because not we were disorderly among you, ⁸ neither gratuitously bread did we eat from any one, but in toil and weariness, night and day working, in order that not to burden any of you. ⁹ Not because not we have authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you for the to imitate us.