You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust.’
2 Thessalonians 3:10 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised In fact, when we were with you, this is what we commanded you: ‘If anyone isn’t willing to work, he should not eat.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust.’
The slacker craves, yet has nothing, but the diligent is fully satisfied.
The slacker does not plough during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.
He told 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 told you these things so that when their time comes you will remember that I told them to you. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
When they came to him, he said to them, ‘You know, from the first day I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time,
In fact, when we were with you, we told you in advance that we were going to experience affliction, and as you know, it happened.
to seek to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,
Don’t you remember that when I was still with you I used to tell you about this?