By the sweat of your brow will you eat food, until you return to the ground, since from it were you taken. For you are dust, and to dust will you return.”
2 Thessalonians 3:10 - Tree of Life Version For even when we were with you, we would give you this order: if anyone will not work, neither shall he 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. |
By the sweat of your brow will you eat food, until you return to the ground, since from it were you taken. For you are dust, and to dust will you return.”
The slacker’s soul craves, yet has nothing, but the diligent soul will be satisfied.
A slacker will not plow in season, so at harvest he looks but finds nothing.
Then He said to them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you—everything written concerning Me in the Torah of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.
But I have spoken these things to you so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.”
When they came to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know how I behaved among you all the time from the first day I set foot in Asia,
For even when we were with you, we kept telling you in advance that we were going to suffer persecution— just as has happened, as you know.
and aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, just as we directed you—
Don’t you remember that when I was still with you I was telling you these things?