For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies.
Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.
But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.
and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,
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