For what glory [is it], if when you sin and are beaten, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer [for it], you endure, this is admirable before God.

"Blessed are you whenever they revile you, and they persecute you, and they say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.

in which I endure hardship unto chains as an evildoer; but the word of God is not chained.

and that you aspire to be quiet, and to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you,

For we hear [that] some are walking among you in a disorderly way, not working at all, but being busybodies.

And besides they learn to be idle, going around from house to house, and not only idle but also gossipy and busybodies, speaking things [which are] not proper.