2 Thessalonians 3:9Open English Bible (Commonwealth)
This was not because we had not a right to receive support, but our object was to give you a pattern for you to copy.
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and I thought that I would lay the matter before you, suggesting that you buy it in the presence of these men who sit here and of the elders of my people. If you will buy it and so keep it in the possession of the family, do so; but if not; then tell me, so that I may know; for no one but you has the right to buy it, and I am next to you.’ ‘I will buy it,’ he said.