For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not undisciplined among you,
The apostle having commended their obedience for the time past, and mentioned his confidence in their obedience for the time to come, proceeds to give them commands and directions to some who were faulty, correcting some things that were amiss among them. Observe, The best society of Christians may have some faulty persons among them, and some things that ought to be reformed.
Commenting on 2 Thessalonians 3:6-15
For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us,.... The apostle goes on to dissuade from that which denominates persons disorderly walkers, and exposes them to the censure of the church, and that partly by the example of the apostles, and partly by their command.
Verse 7. For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us. You know what you should do in order to imitate us. For we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you. . (+) "follow us" "imitate"