By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
2 Thessalonians 3:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: anyone unwilling to work should not eat. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For while we were yet with you, we gave you this rule and charge: If anyone will not work, neither let him eat. American Standard Version (1901) For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat. Common English Bible Even when we were with you we were giving you this command: “If anyone doesn’t want to work, they shouldn’t eat.” Catholic Public Domain Version Then, too, while we were with you, we insisted on this to you: that if anyone was not willing to work, neither should he eat. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For also when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat. |
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
The appetite of the lazy craves and gets nothing, while the appetite of the diligent is richly supplied.
The lazy person does not plow in season; harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.
The craving of the lazy person is fatal, for lazy hands refuse to labor.
Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.”
But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you about them. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.
When they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you the entire time from the first day that I set foot in Asia,
In fact, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were to suffer persecution; so it turned out, as you know.
to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we directed you,
Do you not remember that I told you these things when I was still with you?