In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till 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 - Revised Standard Version For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If any one will not work, let him 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. |
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
The soul of the sluggard craves, and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
Then he said to them, “These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.”
But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you of them. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.
And when they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you all the time from the first day that I set foot in Asia,
For when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction; just as it has come to pass, and as you know.
to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you;